Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kate Braverman
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1980's
- Setting: West Hollywood, California
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, Lenny
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Vietnam War, Veterans, Drug addiction or addicts, Hollywood, Southern California
- Locales: West Hollywood, CA
The Story
The unnamed protagonist is a thirty-eight-year-old California woman who is divorced and raising a young daughter, has been a recovering alcoholic for five months, and is currently seeing an analyst. As she walks across a parking lot in West Hollywood one day on her way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, she is accosted by a short, fat, pale man with bad teeth who introduces himself as Lenny. He invites her for coffee, inquires about her life, and tells her that he will show her the other side and give her the ride of her life. She turns him down.
The next day,...
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