Tag: l.a.

  • Broken Hearts by Laird Long

    Listen to this story on the podcast. The house was in the hot part of Hollywood. The part where the sun doesn’t shine tourist-bright and pleasant, but rather hot and oppressive; the part where you’d never dream in your wildest scar-dust dreams that there was a great big, cool blue ocean only five miles away.…

  • Faster Than A Speeding Bullet by Sally Carpenter

    Sometimes, even superheroes need to call 911. Superman lay face down in the alley next to a Dumpster, a circle of dried blood staining his red cape. Detective Harbison gazed down at the body and decided that regular bullets could take down the Man of Steel just as well as kryptonite. “Poor Markie!” The Latina…

  • The High Road by Sarah M. Chen

    The morning after the night before. Sometimes you’ll do just about anything to make the day more bearable, and sometimes you should have just stayed in bed. As Jay staggered to the bathroom to take a piss, the last thing he was thinking of was his pickup truck. Why should he? It was, well who…