Event

The Vent - 7/21/13

C W N E V I U S
> "The Story Seemed So Interesting When I Began It"

On a somewhat tipsy swing through Miami's art deco South Beach neighborhood, Chuck encounter's an honest-to-goodness movie star. It seemed like a great time to tell him one of my favorite stories. Movie stars just love these kinds of things.

K A T E W I L L E T T
> "Questionably Erotic Pedicures and That Time I Tried to Join a Cult for a Girl."

Sometimes love can change your life. A lot. A teenage girl from the suburbs fell in love for the first time with an Evangelical Christian female classmate. Came out of the closet, made out in a closet, tried (and failed) to join the church of Scientology. Plus, she was utterly defeated by a former child star of a Cheerios commercial.

C H R I S B E C K
> "I just can't get Holland out of my blood"

Adopted at birth, Chris falls into the loving arms of June and George Beck of Tulsa, Oklahoma. As happy as this sounds, Chris grows up feeling about as home there as he would if he had been adopted by aliens. But when he turns 13, his father's company transfers the family to a place so far from Tulsa it is like another universe.

M A T T H O L D A W A Y
> "I get paid for this?!?"

Apparatuses attached to erotic body zones in full view of coworkers, The Pie Queen, piercings, and inadvertent voyeurisms are all in a days work for this customer quality service operator.

K E NN A F I S H E R
> "A Home Depot Winter Solstice Story"

An ex-construction worker turned trans-woman gets a lot more than she bargains for when a sudden urge to buy light bulbs on the longest, darkest night of the year prompts a visit to a familiar place from her past . . . a big box home improvement store . . . and a chance encounter with a stranger and an unexpected message.