It's a dive, a dump, a funky little hole-in-the-wall bar that sits next to a laundry in Mount Pleasant. But the Raven Grill has something that the swankier watering holes in this town lack: a playwright-in-residence.

"He'll sit in that booth over there and he'll get an inspiration and he'll start writing," says the bartender, Jesse Roman, a 55-year- old guy with a serious beer gut and a couple days' growth of beard. "Sometimes he'll recite what he's writing out loud and people say, `What the heck's going on?' "

And now the playwright, Hector Enrique "Quique" Aviles, wanders in, a short guy ...

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