A Life in the Cinema

The building on the corner had many lives before she had lain eyes on it. It had started as a sewing factory in the late 1800s, a clandestine speakeasy/whorehouse throughout prohibition, then converted into a movie theater sometime in the mid-1930s. It had survived the golden age of movies but by the 1970s had crash-landed amid cheap drive-in movies and the mob's sticky fingers. The tired owner had skipped along by showing cheap porn and ignoring the sounds rising from the darkened seats. Lines of coke and the smell of marijuana filled the squalid bathrooms. He could barely operate the projector without shaking. Once drunk he had fallen asleep and woke up the next day in the booth. It was only a matter of time before the doors would slam shut like a tomb. When the VCR tape killed the porn movie star it was the final bullet to the head. The city stepped in citing civic complaints and unpaid taxes. They boarded it all up. The movie posters from the 30s and 40s mingled with teen angst, over the top western gore, sexed-up gogo dancers, vigilante justice, and horror both good and bad. It was a lethal mix that not even Shakespear could have conjured up. It was the thing of dreams and nightmares.

Every time Linda Everheart walked by the building she got a shaky, good feeling in her stomach. She was an anomaly amongst her age group. More interested in movies and theater than experimenting in everything teenage. Her name sounded like one of the classic movie queens in a way. She pictured herself in the days of Hollywood glamour. 

She went out with boys but didn't receive anything from them but a coldness inside. Early accused of being a dyke she took comfort in that. It kept them at bay for the most part and she could have cared less. She suffered in silence during her years in high school. The few people that were friends were transient at best. She knew her parents wouldn't allow her to quit. No one straight out bullied her. They spoke in

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 09.12.2015
ISBN: 978-3-7396-2721-2

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