Chanté, You Stay: Pride in the LBC
Sunday’s Pride parade demonstrated the fact that Long Beach is truly one of the most diverse cities in the world. All colors of the rainbow were beaming as they took to the streets. The Dikes on Bikes roared by, fists raised in the air. Gay veterans marched in step honoring the country they served, as [...]
Honor Students Treated Like Criminals
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Death Stalks The Bayshore Mall
This afternoon Eureka California’s Bayshore Mall is bathed in a hue of desperation and ennui that no amount of sunlight pouring through skylights can brighten. More than half the storefronts are vacant. Shoppers are scarce. Roof tiles are dangling. Employees are daydreaming. Sales are dwindling. With many corporate stores going bankrupt or leaving the mall [...]
Ms. Adventures #2: No Sex in The Nazi Room
23 years old. I was drinking in the dark hollow that is the Ken Club. I was adorned in my finest garb, a brown rose pattern sleeveless dress, purchased that afternoon from that most exclusive of boutiques, Ross. I didn’t wash it before wearing it; I have been putting the “ass” in classy since 1984. [...]
On My Back, On A Bed — Excerpt From Hold Your Tongue
That night before my mother tried to kill herself, I sinned. For a teenage Christian girl, living at the crotch of New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, it was the most dangerous sin of all: sex. Not real sex, but safe counterfeit sex, the kind separated by a telephone wire. In my sweet, Christian heart, [...]
Why Pay More!
Is it the way they end “why pay more” with an exclamation point instead of a question mark? Is it the multiplicity of the Spork? I’m not sure. I’m not sure why I’m willing to drive for at least twenty minutes — each direction — past a dozen or so family owned Mexican restaurants, past [...]
Deity and the Feast (Town Church pt 1)
Several months ago I received a text from a friend informing me that, if interested, I should contact an up and coming pastor named Nate Downey because he’s trying to find someone of contrasting belief systems, perhaps someone without belief, to converse with. At the time Nate was leading a particularly hectic life attempting to [...]
