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Blundstone Terrarium

Boots Girl appears in a desert reptile house where saints hang beside terrariums and creatures are watched from the wrong side of the glass. When a woman stops there by accident, she is quietly confronted with a different possibility: that what she calls broken may simply be badly contained.

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Writing The California Fever Dream

 

“She seemed Built from parts of L.A. you only ever saw at 3AM: cigarette burns, sodium lamps, motel pools reflecting nothing but static.”

Neon Déjà Vu

 

“L.A.’s basically’s held together by duct tape and earthquakes.”

Under Her Frayed Hem

“The Taco Truck on Santa Monica Boulevard was a living thing.”

Under Her Frayed Hem

 

“West Hollywood at noon felt like standing under a blowtorch: the kind of heat that makes the air hum, where the palm trees look plastic and the asphalt ripples like its trying to swallow itself whole.”

Siete Cerillos Apagados