“Pearl Strand is palm trees and neon-bathed boulevards. It's puttering Rascals and mid-afternoon dinners, geriatrics and leathery tans... Rollerblades and hot pants, pleasure piers and rampant alcoholism. It is glitzy nightclubs and dark, dank bars, ubiquitous leopard print, streets that… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“So if you feel like me... Like the end is night... Take heed. I know it seems like nobody cares. That the world longs… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“My cock just hung there at half-stock and she took me in, silent, stone-faced. Her mouth formed a perfect 'O'. And then it formed… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am the egotist. The user. The perpetual malcontent. A distant blot on a hazy horizon. I am a virus. And… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“My time was growing short. I could feel it. And I could see it in the sad, worn faces of those I passed by.… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“The traffic broke and the skyscrapers of Downtown reared up ahead, towering monoliths of steel and glass. The buildings were alive, ready to swallow… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“Einstein once defined insanity - and I paraphrase here - as trying the same thing over and over, and expecting different results each time.… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“Really, Steve?" Clare pouts hideously as I scoop up the remnants of my eighteen-carat gold flecked lobster frittata. "How can you act like this?… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“Face it - the two of you built your private prison from routine. Your life is lived by rote. So... You shake things up… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“My flight came in just past 6 AM. This is not a good time to arrive in Los Angeles. The city is groggy and… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“I hadn't slept so well - story of my fuckin' life right there - so I entertained my fraying senses with the procession of… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“Once a girl has been paid for sex, it can prove exceedingly difficult to break the habit.” — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
“I marveled at the circumstances that had brought me to this moment. Was I really anything like these people? Did we share any of… — Loren Niva Copy Share Image
