Status Updates From April Evil

"That's a bad mood you're in."
"I'm aware of it. I have troubles."
He sipped his drink. "Take me. I never have troubles. I travel light. No room in my pack for troubles. Or for houses or possessions or fat problems. When I get bored, I roll along to some other place."

This guy sure knows how to slowly build the suspense.

Also, there's no "Flamingo Key" there. No barrier island that I know of either. I'm gonna have to think, offhand, I can't think of a town on the Gulf Coast that fits this description -- not one with a population of 12,000.

Does anyone know what gives here? Flamingo has never had a population anywhere near 12,000 (maybe 200 in it's peak). Is MacD just using the name for a fictional town? Odd he'd use the name of a real town -- and he knew Florida well. He also described it as being on the west coast, which isn't exactly right. Some of you JDM fans must know something about this.

There's a list of his books at the beginning. Geez, this guy wrote a lot of books!