PEE-WEE

How did I get myself into this?

Pee-Wee, AI Art by Tom Calarco, generated thru NightCafe

I was still trembling. I had been holding in my terror for hours. I had left my home in upstate New York about a week earlier, my sights set on Hollywood, where I had lived seven years earlier for two months.

I did dumb things when I was in my 20s. I had so much faith in human nature and assumed everyone had some goodness; even still, though now I am much more guarded.