Junk City

Set in San Francisco, the stories and poems in JUNK CITY are linked by characters and the characters are linked by addiction in one form or another. A hard-drinking mail carrier struggling to find deeper meaning when he comes across a suicide on his route. A seasoned city cop trying to make it to retirement before he ends up viral on YouTube. A teenage runaway selling his body for dope. An aging stripper named Eskimo convinced she can turn over a new leaf by getting her poetry chapbook published (and whose poems link the stories). A cross-dressing accountant running a Ponzi scheme on his clients. And a legend of the local street fighting scene whose life is spiraling out of control in a swirl of brown booze and pain pills. Each character lives in a shadowy down-and-out world, where only occasional slivers of light break through their fog. Not for a faint-hearted reader.