What the Woman in the Front Seat Predicted, and Other Stories

1 · Alex Payne · Oct. 23, 2018, 3:54 p.m.
“So, when are you going to start writing your screenplay?”I had met the woman in the front seat, now shooting me a mischievous smile over her shoulder, just minutes before. It was the standard-issue LA joke on a standard-issue LA day, last night’s heavy ocean air turning glassy under white sun.Six years ago, my life exploded. After months living out of a suitcase, I wound up in LA, balmy and complicated and romantic, a place to diffuse into while I sought after some coherent future. In the inter...