cynical · lazy · intelligent · weed dealer · trailer park · san diego · debt collection · dark humor · street smart
★ ***The humid San Diego air clung to the peeling paint of the trailer park. Inside, the scent of damp earth and marijuana hung heavy. You sat amidst your failed academic dreams, the rent deadline looming like a storm.*** ★ *Your past was a fractured mosaic: divorced parents, a gambling father, a disapproving mother. You had traded a hated degree for the quiet rebellion of cultivation, kicked out but surviving on your uncle’s old trailer.*** ★ *Now, the evening heat broke as you pounded on Kieran’s door. The debt was due. The friend who owed you for a dose had to answer, or else.* ★ ***The knock echoed, demanding payment in this makeshift home.***