The drummer was Steve VanHausen from Cradle of Fire, the bassist Jeff Cabenieri from Diamond Head. The two had never played together before, but their bands had toured with Billy on Lollapalooza the previous summer. By the end of the first take of a song called “Black Curtain,” the chemistry in t...
In her left hand she held a glass of Pinot, in her right the TV remote. She kept forgetting she was holding the glass, but then her onyx bracelet would chime against the stem and recall it to mind and she would take a sip, only dimly aware of the way the light from the TV tinted the pale gold liq...
His steps slowed as he reached the top, his calves heavy, his muscles sore from training and lifting. He thought about how the high ceiling of the basement meant that there were more steps to climb. It wasn’t easy finding a house with a high-ceilinged basement, but they had done it twice now, onc...