Time (part 11)

“Kelly,” I said. The other me turned around and looked at me dropping her popcorn when she saw me. “I…..I’m ….”she gasped. “It’s okay. Let’s just go somewhere and talk,” I said. We exited the theater silently and began walking down the street. I noticed that she was shaking life a leaf. “Is […]

Time (part 6)

The first thing I saw when I came to was Tom concerned face bent over me, he handed me a glass of water and sat me up. “Where am I, “I asked.” “You’re in the other room watching TV.” “Oh, did I say anything about what year I was from? “She…I mean you […]

Time (part 3)

I arrived at the posh apartment building at 8:30 PM. I was greeted by Mr. Peterman who led upstairs to the penthouse. I began setting up my table. My hands shook a little as I pulled out my old purple velvet table cloth. My eyes welled up a bit, I didn’t realized how […]

Time (part one)

I felt hopeful when we saw the ad for a roommate in North Hollywood. My unemployment check did not begin to cover the rent on my Beverly Hills studio and what little I made from audience work and blogging just barely made ends meet. I’d only met Tom, my new roommate briefly. Tom’s […]

Casual Encounters?

Melody took a deep breath and pushed the elevator button. Her heart raced as the elevator rose to the tenth floor. She’d made sure to take a picture of the hotel and post it on her Facebook page with no comment, she wanted to let people know where she was without telling […]

Luck

Jennifer Pallyworth sat in the passenger seat of her agents care texting her boyfriend. She glanced up at the rear view mirror to see the camera crew following several cars behind her. ‘On way to tard’s see you tonight,’ the text said. ‘XOXO weer the red pantees,’ her boyfriend wrote back. “I talked […]

Financial Freedom in One Easy Step

Ortha Wistler sat in a comfortable leather chair that rested atop the plush carpeting of her tastefully decorated high-rise apartment getting the worst news of her life. Molly Wong sat across from her with the incriminating letter in her hand and a smug look in her eye. “Your buddy Martha Stewart went […]

The Audition Workshop Salesman, The Church of Scientology and My Life of Crime

Chris called me and told me the good news the first week of July. He got a job working for a special effects house in Los Angeles. He was basically going to be a PA, but it was something; I was happy for him. I thought the new job would put him in a better […]

John Cho, Fake Blood and the Purse Controversy

Chris found the advertisement in Working World magazine; “US Census takers wanted $17.00 an hour. “ According to the ad all you had to do was take a test, go through training and then you would make $17.00 an hour, full time for three months. Chris’s drug dealer, Brian told him that he had […]

Tarot Cards, Garrett Morris and One Broke Girl

It took two weeks and a series of intense interviews to get a part-time job setting appointments for a janitorial company. One night, Chris and I had stumbled across a Manpower office on Fifth Street, downtown. The representative there had taken our resumes and had us fill out a couple of applications. he’d seemed very […]