It was cold that night.

So many people don't think of that. They think Vegas, they think Arizona, they think of heatThe desert gets cold at night ( Read more... )

In my entry about the rape, I don't touch much upon the rape kit - the taking of evidence. I don't touch much on the emotional impact of any of it. But in that post, I focus mostly on the act itself.

What I wrote about it is under the cut, and I'm going to write more about it, also under the cut.

( So don't click this if it would trigger you. )

Brian was the only person I knew in Vegas who had a car ( Read more... )

I wasn't always at Layne's side. Layne refused to take me anywhere on Business. For Business, read: drug deals. This did take up a not-insignificant part of his time. So I was free to roam Vegas as I wished. But there were two coffeehouses I always came back to... Cafe Copioh, when I wanted company, and Cafe Espresso Roma, when I wanted to write ( Read more... )

All the nights are strange when you're like this, all time is no-time, but this night is even weirder than most, this night where he has been seen. He is usually invisible, especially in that crowd, everyone bright and loud and peacocky, everyone fighting for center stage, and him sitting in the back of the room, quiet, the sole inhabitant of an ( Read more... )

Raw output! Notes I scribbled forever ago about going out to the hot springs with Brian and Andre. They were best friends, and not tweakers; Brian got frustrated and angry when I was high. I understand now why it upset him so ( Read more... )

I don't know what story Walking on Water is supposed to be ( Read more... )

No city in the world actively encourages drug use like Las Vegas does ( Read more... )

Hal was 35 when I met him. Funny how that seems so old, so venerable, when you're just-barely twenty.

Hal was 35, and the only job he'd ever had was dealing drugs.

It's not something they talk about at career day at school. I never found out what Hal had wanted to be - a teacher? A vet? A fireman? What ambitions did ten-year-old Hal profess in ( Read more... )