guirilandia: Memoirs from the Circus

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Memoirs from the Circus

3ammagazine, a British ezine, has published an old short story of mine. It’s actually one of the first I ever wrote.

It takes place in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco where I used to live, and it’s almost all true (really, I can’t make some of this stuff up).

Also, it looks like they published an older version of the story, as the new, slightly-revised version is called "Vantage Point" - which has more impact in my humble, nit-picky writerly opinion. Anyway, the revisions are so slight only I would probably notice them.

There are nights when anything can happen; wild, hot nights when uptown folks maunder through the grid in search of adventure, and end up with eventual regrets …

Read it here