Mel C. Thompson

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Santa Monica Girls (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Eddie Smith, a passive-aggressive career-failure moves from Orange County where he faces social oblivion and flops into Santa Monica hoping to merely postpone doom. But the fates drag him into countless sexual and vocational circumstances that are far out of his league. Though self-pitying and seemingly unwilling to change his fate, he is thrown into a head-spinning sequence of dating adventures and job opportunities which he finds himself ill-equipped to handle. Reliant on alcohol, caffeine and prescription medications, he roams from doctor to doctor seeking medical help. Having fallen out of love with his family who tires of his weakness and dependency, he comes to rely on the whims of others for almost everything. Lacking a true sense of direction, he compliantly agrees to enter virtually any situation he is told to by any friend, enemy or stranger with a forceful enough will to push him this way or that. He is confronted more than once about his character and is told he is an undeserving embarrassment. He makes little effort to change people's opinion of him, but merely sets out on any quest that strikes the fancy of those who guide him. Unable to conquer his shallow impulses, he haplessly follows beautiful women around until something happens. And way too much seems to happen. But, in spite of his fecklessness, he keeps managing to eke out some sort of existence.

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Autor

Mel C. Thompson is a retired wage slave who survived by working through temp agencies and guard agencies. Unable to survive in the real world of full-time, permanent work, he migrated from building to building, going wherever his agencies sent him, doing any type of work he could feign competency in and staying as long as those fragile arrangements could last. He somehow managed to get a B.A in Philosophy from Cal-State Fullerton in spite of his learning disorders and health problems. Unable to sustain family life due to depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, lack of transportation and lack of income, he lives alone in low-income housing and wanders around California on buses and trains. He began writing at the age of 14 and continues till the current day. (He turns 64 in June of 2023). In his early years he wrote pathetic love poetry until, in his thirties, he was engulfed by cynicism and fell in with a group of largely antisocial poets who wrote about the underground life of drugs, sex, alcohol, poverty, prostitution, heresy, isolation and alienation. In his fortes he turned to prose and began to write religious fiction with an emphasis on the comedic aspect of theology and philosophy. He now writes short novels focusing on the attempt to find meaning in a economic world beset with money laundering, unethical marketing, contraband smuggling, human trafficking, patent trolling, corrupt contracting and every manner of spiritual and psychological desperation and degradation. When he is not writing, he wanders from hospital to medical clinic to surgical room attempting to sustain what little health he has left after a lifetime of complications resulting from birth defects and genetic problems. When he is able, he engages in such hobbies as reading, walking, yoga and meditation; and whenever there is any money left over from his healthcare-related quests, he goes to wine tastings and searches for foodie-related bargains. Before the pandemic, he spent many years gaming various travel-points systems and wrangled many free trips to Europe. He is divorced and has no children, no pets, no real estate, no stocks nor any other assets beyond the $550 in his savings account. His career peaked in the early 2000s when he did comedy gags for a radio station and had about 10,000 listeners per week. However, currently, he may have as few as five active readers on any given day. He no longer has the stamina to promote his work and only finds new readers through ran...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mel C. Thompson
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005005078
• Artikelnr.: 69870273