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Category: Mainline Journae

  • Valerie

    VALERIE is the tale of an abused 17-year-old who flees to to Hollywood to find it’s even more of a nightmare than home. Will she find a happy ending before the end finds her?   A short student film by Christine D. Beatty screened at the Hollywood Reel Film Festival in 2018. It has found a […]

  • Satan’s True Minions

    “What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he’s around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. … He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and […]

  • Wave Your Freak Flag

    If you think of yourself as “normal” you can go ahead and read this, but it may not speak to you. … However, if you struggle with self-acceptance, then this was written just for you.

  • Do More of This in 2021

    I started doing Photography as a 13-year-old—was raised by pro photographers—was a studio and darkroom assistant—but as much as I enjoy it, it’s a struggle to find the time. In 2018 I took a UCLA class in Photography just so I’d have deadlines to light a fire under me to get out there and shoot. […]

  • Welcome to the Tenderloin

    For nearly a century, San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has been notorious for its squalor, prostitution and drugs, and crime in general. I first made acquaintance with it in October of 1982. Oddly enough, I still romanticize that neighborhood to this very day. I’m even nostalgic for it. In my 1993 anthology, Misery Loves Company, I […]

  • A Bag of Bricks Called Guilt

    “Guilt is like a bag of fuckin’ bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down.” – The Devil’s Advocate Be there no mistake about it, guilt destroys people’s lives. Since we live in a society so influenced by fear-based religion—and led by hypocritical politicians who pander to it—it’s no wonder we’re drowning in it. […]

  • Somebody Get Me a Doctor

    Most millennials look around at what’s going on in America right now and conclude our country has never been this screwed up with division and strife. Were it only so. Fifty years ago, the left and the right were torn over the Vietnam war, the rise of feminism, Black Power, Brown Power, hippie culture, drugs, […]