Feature Stories
It was eight o'clock in the morning and I was standing in a cheap apartment in Leucadia, staring at a wall decorated with the faces of dead Mormon prophets. It had been years since I …
“Once dinner was over,” the Kansas-bred woman says, “you could at least get out of your Sunday clothes.” Children played quietly in the neighborhood. In less strict families, the children might go to the movies.
People inside here make believe they are betting on all things. There are pools. Pools on who will get beat up next, turn gay, escape, go to bed first, make the longest phone call, have the shortest visit,
The author was sentenced to six months in prison on federal drug charges involving cocaine. While incarcerated at downtown's Metropolitan Correctional Center, he wrote to his friends. These are his letters. Boys, I've finally found …
We have seen the sights before we got here: movies, TV, the neighbors' slides, these postcards that carry the treacherous lies. The sights have been sold at Toys R Us in the form of 1000-piece jigsaws.
The local humanist community is abuzz lately with allegations of anti-Semitism. The current controversy stems from a January, 1984 issue of a local publication called The Truthseeker, published and edited by 84-year-old James Harvey Johnson. …
Every athlete who has reached that point in his life when he is almost ready to admit he is over the hill has those moments of regret. Usually they come on a Sunday afternoon while …
When I was ten, polio robbed me of my first loveI had met little Karen with her bright green dress at one of the recreation department dances held at Central Elementary School, over on Polk Street.
Garry does not involve himself in the human side of this job. He does not speak to the people. The human dramas, when they occur, don’t touch him. He lifts, he carries. He doesn’t look or listen.
The most obvious and the simplest answer to the apparently sudden change in the courtship and marriage — and nonmarriage — habits of the affluent, educated young was wrought by the birth-control pill.
My attempts to make "it" happen had failed. A friend said, "You wear me out." A psychiatrist told me, "You had an overstimulated childhood. You expect too much." A man's wife warned, "Quit flirting with my husband."
People say that once you discover Ventura Place, you keep coming back. Some say it's because this street across from Belmont Park in Mission Beach has the most beautiful sunsets in the world. Others think …
There is something startling about the place called Hakwin: in the midst of this mountain valley, green with manzanita, juniper, and pine, the hundred-foot-high granite ridge looms like an apparition. It is perhaps a half …
I may be the youngest San Diegan to remember the Second World War, especially the time immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor. If I get lucky and live to be a hundred years old …
John and I stood on a flat rock under the hot sun holding our fishing lines. Far below us large waves steadily struck the Baja coast south of Ensenada at this place called San Juan …
Terry Barrett the powder man stood on the edge of a fifty-foot cliff he was about to destroy. As he spoke he pointed downward to the pit of a granite quarry, where there sat a …