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27 bus confessions

What is this? It's the book I started in San Francisco, completely dropped in LA (it was screenplay season after all) and picked up again in Concord, Massachusetts. It's exactly 1/2 done. Exactly. More or less. This character is fun to write because she's so snotty and insane, but difficult cos I need to be in a certain frame of mind at times. Much easier when I'm depressed.

The pitch would be: A young woman leads a disparate double life during San Francisco's dot-com boom: Talented designer and good neighbor on one hand, and a twisted serial killer on the other.

Written in the style of a more-or-less daily journal, it's FICTION. She tends to lost track of linear time, among other, er, problems she has. She's not a very nice person really. I've personally never killed anyone.


1. I HATE the little swarthy man who sits behind me 2. I SAW that weird guy on the bus again today 3. JANET POPS the cork from the bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 4. THE SMELL is gone
5. HERMAN ASKED me if I wanted to get coffee after work tonight 6. NUCLEAR NIGHT 7. I ALMOST passed out at the gym again 8. ONE OF the first things I ever noticed about San Franciscans
9. TODAY IS my birthday, my real one 10. WHO COULD eat in that place? 11. HE SHOULD have seen it coming 12. POOR LITTLE thing
13. TODAY PEOPLE seem more disgusting and misshapen than ever 14. HERMAN ROTH is ignoring me 15. POOR ASS BREATH will be laid up in the hospital for quite a while apparently 16. I DON'T want to be graphics producer
17. SINCE NO one sits behind me now, I can do whatever I want all day long 18. AT THE all-associates meeting in the office building today I had a terrible hangover 19. THE ENGLISHMAN has me cornered 20. ASS BREATH is back
21. GONE 22. I LET Herman inside my apartment 23. WE ARE all prisoners 24. TODAY PERFECT weather has taken hold of the city
25. THE SUN is lowering in the autumn sky 26. ASS BREATH sent me a really weird email today 27. THE CLOCK on the bedstand blinks 12:00, 12:00, 12:00, 12:00 28. DANTE BREATHES silently
29. THIS IS really horrible 30. COFFEE’S ON, cats and birds are fed and happy 31. LIFE IS cruel and terrible 32. SIMPLY AWFUL things are happening
33. SO HERE’S the deal

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