Ali In Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales - Plot & Excerpts
Two salient details led to repeated bouts with insomnia: one, the house was near where the Manson murders had taken place; and two, we were renting the house from Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series). One afternoon I was looking to store some broken speakers in the garage when I came upon a rubber Freddy Krueger mask and was so horrified I tried to break our lease. What was even more frightening was that the mask was more attractive than most of the men I was dating at the time. The house was built into a hill that was straight up Laurel Canyon and off Wonderland Avenue. During the rainy months we carried our tea and yogurt from the kitchen to the living room through a heavy stream of mud. There was one bedroom upstairs, which was the clear winner, with a skylight and a view of the street, and a downstairs bedroom that smelled like mildew, was riddled with spiders, and had a sliding glass door that opened onto a pile of dirt. The upstairs bedroom could be a tree house in Costa Rica; the bottom bedroom looked like the dank basements where police find skulls of missing prostitutes.
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