DAY ONE I got off the plane at midnight and told the customs dude that I’d be in Spain for two weeks, but that was a lie. I’d be there for ten days, two weeks just sounded more official and I was terrified that he was gonna ask me if I’d ever been arrested or what...
So I logged onto MySpace while my ex-girlfriend was at work. It was 2005. I was twenty years old and hadn’t seen this girl named Robyn since I was fourteen in this rehab in Louisiana, but now that MySpace had just come out, I wondered if I might be able to find her....
We drove Northeast from the Atlanta airport and were now somewhere in the barren Appalachian Mountains. I sat in the front seat of a red pickup truck, crammed in between two scary hick private investigators with a gun rack and rifle mounted to the rear window. I had...
Life Stories With No Morals. I was twenty-two and had nothing but the 2K my grandma had given me as a “loan” to get my life together. At the time, I was producing plays for a living in NYC and had just lost 7K on my last show. My grandma’s loan wasn’t...
Golden Prostitute: The Tale of Flower’s Coveted Services Once upon a time I was a homeless runaway sixteen-year-old kid and my boot-camp-boarding-school sweetheart was turning tricks on the streets of Providence. Her name was Flower, and this is her story, one...
It was the first day of middle school. The hallway crowded with hostile sixth graders, half from East Hills Elementary School, and the rest from Harbor Hill Elementary School. The two schools had always remained divided until today. For the first time, we were...
Tina never played sports in school. She was always the girly girl that went to softball practice just to gossip about boys. She was only ten years old when she asked her mom if she could wear eyeshadow to school. All the girls are doing it mom. And so she...
Here’s a story about what happened at this cheap motel in Georgia. So I’m at this cheap motel in this cracked out town called New Brunswick in Georgia, which is right over the river from Saint Simons Island, also in Georgia, and I got my two pups and...
It was snowing. A lot. I was in Wyoming edging my way into South Dakota. We were heading for Deadwood (yeah that town actually exists… it’s not just on Netflix) to stay at a lil ol house this lil ol lady originally from Long Island had turned into a hostel. I see the...
You know when you’re embarrassed to be reading the book you’re reading so everywhere you go you try to hide the cover? Or if it’s a hardcover you take off the slip and you don’t throw it away cause it cost you money so instead you hide it in your...
