tell me a story: --- really short stories. a true story. things i didn't write. three kids and a house. patron saints. newspapers. frozen corn. pornoholic. the last real girl in los angeles. stupid haiku. a mantra. --- pilgrimage. singing in the car. crying and driving. rambling. the llano river. or, how I learned to stop worrying... my love letter to california. holly street beach. returning to seattle. the phone booth in the desert. --- bad poetry, unfinished. love and gravity. view from the porch, aron's house. hair and scissors. a muse. a photograph. winter in los angeles. three lies. a plot synopsis. inventory. gift. bartending. memories in lost time. --- a prayer. ramadan. family vacation. rosary. in the icu. fading radio memory. something i lost. a person in another life. --- in hell, wearing business casual. hate. vomit. trashed. at the vogue. fear and loathing. why i hate los angeles. oceans.