I’ve five chapters into “Dirty Red Kiss,” a self-published online novel by Derek Henkel. It’s a damned fine read thus far — for one thing, it’s really nailed the Mission district of San Francisco, a weirdly charming and simultaneously horrible neighborhood, and the race politics of Northern California, which smack me in the face every time I leave my apartment. Being self-published, the book hasn’t been very well proof-read, and there are many extraneous apostrophes, misspellings, etc, which make me want to reach for my red pencil, but for all that, this is a really fine work of fiction.