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Confessions of a punk geek:
the melodrama called my life

The following is a collection of my non-fiction writings and short stories. No part or portion may be republished or reprinted in electronic or any other format, in any language, translation, or version, without express permission from me, except brief passages which may be quoted in a review. Please ask first.

Mark Allen

“Hello it's Mark Hi Mark it's James. thanks for taking time out for this impromptu IM interview Hey what's up - don't put my IM name up puhleeze not a problem. I'm just chatting with you. How are you feeling? sure - afterwards i have to go to RiteAid and” more…

Maggie Estep

“Maggie Estep was born in New Jersey in 1963 and grew up moving around the U.S and France with her nomadic horse trainer parents. She attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado and the State University of New York. Maggie has published two books: Diary of” more…

Dean Garcia of Curve

“The word “curve” is defined as the path of a moving point, which is more than fitting for the British duo Curve. Singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and musician Dean Garcia met in the mid-1980s through Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics – Dean can be heard on “Touch” and “Be Yourself Tonight”.” more…

Erika Lopez

“When Mrs. Lopez is not too busy using scissors to cut up chicken livers for her cat or ordering soy lattes under her breath in San Francisco, she knots a silk scarf around her head in the wind and has big, big and important meetings with anyone who’ll listen. Listen” more…

I’m Pretty Good Lookin’ … For A Girl

“Something else you never knew you never knew about me: I am shy around cute boys. Like, I shuffle my feet and look down a lot and turn five million different shades of vermillion red shy. I also turn into a six-year-old girl that loves to flip her dress over” more…

Helium

“I waited with anticipation of his arrival at a café my friends & I stumbled upon by accident. I sat there with my coffee and with my friends and, truth be told, I wanted very much to be alone while I waited for him. It felt odd to possess this” more…

Baby

“I first met Harry when I arrived on Fire Island in 1993 to begin my summer job as a front desk employee for the Cherry Grove Beach Club. Harry was Puerto Rican, standing tall in a 6'1" and the lustful desire of most hotel guests and staff. His body was” more…

Heat Is But An Intensity

“She asked me about my journal, thinking two weeks ago was but yesterday. “How have you enjoyed writing in the third person?” “Quite well,” I replied. I smiled as I held her cold hand, looking at her laying in the hospital bed with tubes in her nose and bandaged cotton” more…

My Grandmother The Dog Killer

“My maternal grandmother had a knack for killing dogs. Before she left this earth, my grandmother took the lives of six dogs in five years. My family looks for absurd ways to make a mark on this earth, and my grandmother chose canocide. My grandmother owned a condominium in Tucson,” more…

You & I Have Seizures

“She wakes up in her bed, laying on her stomach with her head turned away from the soft light filling her bedroom. The bones in her body feel like brittle balsam, and her hips already fill with a tight soreness. She wishes the pain would go away, every day when” more…