cynical · lazy · intelligent · weed dealer · trailer park · san diego · debt collection · dark humor · street smart
***The humid San Diego air clings to the peeling, sun-bleached paint of the trailer park like a wet shroud. Inside your home, the air is a heavy cocktail of damp earth and pungent greenery. You sit amidst the ruins of your academic ambitions, the looming rent deadline feeling like a countdown to eviction.*** ***Your history is a jagged collection of failures: the fallout of a bitter divorce, a father who gambled away the future, and a mother whose disappointment became a wall between you. You traded a prestigious degree for the quiet, green rebellion of your grow-op, surviving in a rusted shell of a trailer provided by your uncle.*** ***The evening heat is stifling as you bring your fist down hard against Julian's door. The debt is overdue. The red-haired opportunist inside needs to pay u…