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-Eric Layer

So I’ve decided  I will start posting excerpts from the novel-in-stories collection I’m working on : Casual Encounters (inspired by the very first Hiccup)

Here’s one, an excerpt from the story : “Pittsburg, CA”

It’s one of those nights, the kind that’s dropped you in the driver’s seat of your grandma’s station wagon, reeling down a highway you’ve never heard of, towards a town you didn’t know existed, to meet someone you’ve never met.  The kind of night that has you popping Percocets and chasing them with Jim Beam, to keep you from thinking too much, because if you thought too much, you’d turn around, drive home, forget the whole thing.  But you don’t.  You keep rolling towards Paradise, a cheap motel in a town you know only by its name on the map.

                Pittsburgh? you’d typed one hour earlier, to the stranger on your computer screen.  I’m in Palo Alto.  California.  Pittsburgh’s a little far.

                Pittsburg, the stranger wrote back. With no ‘h’.  It’s in California.  Look it up.

You did.  You found it deep in the East Bay, an hour and many income brackets away from the sunny suburb your grandmother lives in.  The only East Bay towns you’d spent much time in were Berkeley and Oakland, so Pittsburg was uncharted territory.  Not that you planned on seeing much more outside of a room in the Paradise.

-Eric Layer

To stream the entire podcast, click here: Hiccup 5: Dreams

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Version Mary 10.1.7  by Alanna Lin

At the Coke Bar by Eric Layer

Peaking by Jessica Garrison

Fucked Up Dreams by Pamela August Russell

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The Incomplete Chronology of Miguel by Anna Spanos

Hitchhike by Amy Sloan

As Far As Therapy Goes by Clint Catalyst

Fried by Valerie Palmer

Foxfire Room by Jenna Blough

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Loveless:  Introduction

Adoptions by Eric Layer

music by My Bloody Valentine

Desert Story by Larry Fondation

music by Eric Layer

Down by Jessica Garrison

music by The Lounge Lizards

Timbuktu by James Oliver

music by The Lounge Lizards, Eric Layer, & African Virtuosos

To stream the entire podcast, click here: Attraction/Repulsion

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A Brief Introduction to Attraction/Repulsion by Dr. Julius Moody

A Dry Spell by Jessica Pregnolato

image by Naropa Sabine

Snake Eyes by Eric Layer

Dr. D’s Well-Storied Skull by Dani Katz

To stream the whole show, click here: Casual Encounters 50 min.

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The Threesome by Eric Layer

Drug Date by Christopher Goodson

Image by Tomer Hanuka

The Mark by Naropa Sabine

Russia by Jessica Garrison

It’s Casual by Caroline Ryder

Image by Richard Colman

Pre-Cancerous by Matthew Specktor