Recent Posts Tagged With 'domestic violence'

• The Tear-Stained Shoulder of a Sap

  Posted on Wednesday March 5th, 2008 at 04:35 in domestic violence, nightclub

  She was 17, dating some punk of the same age. The punk had a short rap sheet of petty crimes and criminal acts of idiocy. Typical adolescent bad boy attraction. Rebellion against an inattentive father. Her story: they argued. He punched her three tim...

• Lesson Unlearned

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 19:03 in domestic violence, nightclub

  Jack’s rap sheet was the resume of an idiot: a few petty thefts, several residential burglaries, and the occasional trespass. Highlighting his stupidity was a conviction for punching a cop while being arrested for jerking off in public. Why lit...

• Three’s a Crowd

  Posted on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 10:58 in domestic violence

  Mary’s studio apartment. Quarter to three. Diagonal shadows from venetian blinds pinned us to her bed. She lay next to me. Tense. Frigid. She was expecting something. Nothing good. A silhouette of a man broke the striped pattern covering us. So...

• No Money, No Honey

  Posted on Saturday November 24th, 2007 at 02:01 in stripper, blood, porn star, domestic violence, nightclub

  Lola was a porn star turned single mom. Baby’s daddy was a three-strike loser who took up residence at San Quentin before Lola gave birth. She gave up porn, crossed two state lines and landed a gig as a stripper at a topless club just up the hi...

• This Seat’s Taken

  Posted on Wednesday October 17th, 2007 at 22:40 in domestic violence, nightclub

  I sat in the VIP room, smoking a cigarette, sipping my scotch, engaging in meaningless conversation with a table full of drunks. Some chick took a seat on my lap as if it was reserved just for her. “Do I know you?” I asked with a smile. &...