A gaggle of teenagers stood in front of the Walnut Creek Cheesecake Factory as I slowly pulled past the crosswalk and parked. A boy in a varsity hoodie noticed my car and rushed over. “Uber?” he asked. I nodded. “Let me get my friends.” The kids parted as he walked a drunk girl to myContinue reading “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
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Hit and Run
“You have arrived,” said the Uber app voice. “Your destination is on the right.” The map on my iPhone showed only coordinates. No physical address. I craned my neck, looking up and down the dark sidewalk. This was the part of Uber’ing that stressed me the most: finding the address and passenger without getting rear-ended,Continue reading “Hit and Run”
Marie the Elder
I turned the corner of the hospital corridor and looked at the patient in the room where I was expecting to see my former mother-in-law. The white-haired woman who lay swaddled in bedding, surrounded by IV bags and equipment looked too old and emaciated to be Marie. I asked at the nurse’s station where I could find Room 2012. She pointed to the frail lady across the hall.
THEN THERE WAS LARRY
Alluvium Books is thrilled to announce the audiobook release of THEN THERE WAS LARRY, a memoir by Marie Estorge. Marie is the bestselling author of Storkbites: A Memoir and Confessions of a Bipolar Mardi Gras Queen (penned under Marie Etienne) and her debut novel, In the Middle of Otherwise. THEN THERE WAS LARRY is a real-life cautionary tale ofContinue reading “THEN THERE WAS LARRY”
Revisiting the Past
One of the few upsides to Covid-19 was that my California employer allowed me to work remotely from Louisiana for the summer. In the last 25 years, I hadn’t spent more than a week at a time visiting my family. My college-aged son was studying from our home, so I left him in charge ofContinue reading “Revisiting the Past”