LA TACO » Crumbling… ~ Part 1

Crumbling… ~ Part 1

Please welcome our new serialized flash fiction by Rodger Jacobs… updated every Monday

Like every other wandering and shapeless fool in this wind-blasted, fire-ravaged town I used to believe in the myth of the future, and I shaped my life by this belief. I turned my back on the past and eagerly awaited the dawn of tomorrow.

The land is restless in L.A., restless and sliding like the high lurching cliffs that confront the ocean in Pacific Palisades; that should have been enough to clue me in to the impermanence here, the impermanence of life and of the city itself.

I knew that Evelyn LaScalles would murder me. I knew it the moment I laid eyes on her in that dive bar near Seward and Willoughby, a particularly nasty stretch of Old Hollywood. She smiled and asked if she could buy me a drink. I lowered myself onto the high-backed stool next to her and tried to ignore the obvious outline of a gun in her handbag. It was none of my business. A lot of people have good reason to carry a gun in L.A.

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This entry was written by taco and posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 PM and filed under Fiction.

Comments (6) to “Crumbling… ~ Part 1”

Crumbling Slowly Down to the Ocean « Carver’s Dog wrote:

[...] Crumbling Slowly Down to the Ocean at LA Taco; they came up with a pretty cool masthead for the story [...]

Posted on 02-Jun-08 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
exems wrote:

this rules, keep it coming.

Posted on 02-Jun-08 at 5:39 pm | Permalink
Rodger Jacobs wrote:

Thanks for the opportunity; this will be fun.

Posted on 02-Jun-08 at 5:44 pm | Permalink
J-an wrote:

LA Noir, I love it. Will be reading to see what happens.

Posted on 03-Jun-08 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
Rodger Jacobs wrote:

Thanks, J-an and exems …

Posted on 03-Jun-08 at 6:39 pm | Permalink
LA TACO » Crumbling… ~ Part 2 wrote:

[...] Part 1 | (No Tacos [...]

Posted on 09-Jun-08 at 1:57 pm | Permalink