"Mulholland Drive" and other stories. (Original writing)

The Angelenos in each of these four original short stories embark on journeys that turn out to be metaphoric as well as literal. In "Mulholland Drive," the ten-year-old narrator accompanies her father and her two sisters on an out-of-the-ordinary Sunday drive that dramatizes the clash of their various reactions to the death of the girls' mother. A clash of personalities also plays a part in "The Elvis Motel," in which two childhood friends, recent college graduates, drive north together from Los Angeles; each ultimately arrives at an unexpected psychic state. Next, a couple in their mid-twenties journeys cross-country to "Gordon Kemp's Apartment" in New York City, where the geographical change initiates a rift between them. Finally, the thirty-three-year-old narrator of "A Handful" takes a drive in order to re-examine her role as both a mother and a daughter.