June 25, 2010 scottcjones 5Comments

>[Missed earlier chapters? Read one and two.]According to my MapQuest map, Maryanne’s apartment was only a block off Santa Monica Boulevard, not far from the Jack In The Box.Santa Monica Boulevard was lousy with lumbering buses–buses which I would come to know intimately soon enough–and a fleet of sports cars with their tops down being driven by beautiful women wearing sunglasses that made them resemble prehistoric bugs. But a mere half block off of Santa Monica Boulevard, things abruptly got far more peaceful. Birds were chirping. I could smell the salt in the air blowing in from the Pacific. After…