UP AGAINST THE WALL It is said that the average American has about12 different jobs during the course of their career. Having worked sinc...

HAUNTED CLOSETS While you were still in college at the Art Institute, you flew from San Francisco to Utica, New York to visit your mom an...

THE 3 FACES: IS THIS A DREAM? Professional help never helped. Until one autumn day in 1990 when you felt compelled to seek the counsel of...

TRUKLIFE In May 2007, as a last desperate attempt to revive your sputtering relationship, you and Evan stopped doing drugs and drove a re...

FIRESTARTER And so it was that your love affair with crystal meth was rekindled like a house of cards on fire and smoldered until it was ...

POINT OF NO RETURN Back in LA, it did not take long before that idea of watching the sunset on the ocean was stowed behind the snobbish s...

ROADKILL A couple weeks after arriving in Los Angeles, you went down to San Diego to visit Richard. He was your first love when you were ...

LOOSE ANGELS Nowhere felt as permeated with fake brick wall falsehoods, with the whorrific dull hum of unfulfilled longing, as did LA. No...

GOD IS NO PLACE Growing up in the military, you were accustomed to moving to different places bi-annually. This made it difficult to form...

LIFE AFTER DEATH After the twin abortion, you left Ben. His guilt over cheating on you preempted him to propose marriage. But you want...

THE 3 FACES: HEREIN LIES THE HOLE It begs for fulfillment and has always begged for fulfillment since the dawning of humankind. Throughou...

THE 3 FACES: AVARICE! Depression's been a constant dull ache since you were in 4th grade, so you always welcomed the presence of rag...