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A Love Story Footnote
“What is left of a man and all his pride but bones.” —Jack Kerouac
Jan 3
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A Brief Magazine Autopsy
Here’s a cover I “designed” for this obscure, already-on-life-support music magazine—back when print was circling the drain but still clung to a pulse…
Dec 23, 2025
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Notes from a 1968 Playboy
...and the Wreckage It Implies
Dec 4, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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Blowjob in a Minor Key
If you come out of a movie saying, “Well, that was interesting,” then it was a piece of shit.—William Friedkin
Nov 18, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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Ask a Punk (and Other Forms of Intimacy)
My girlfriend comes over and reorganizes my record collection whenever she feels like it.
Oct 23, 2025
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A Dream Within a Dream
I have horizontal creases on my forehead that I noticed beginning to develop years ago but only recently started to recognize as the onset of my…
Sep 24, 2025
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Jenny Orders Dr. Pepper
(Boredom as Foreplay)
Sep 5, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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Pretty Lucia From Hollywood
Lucia hands me a miniature can of Coke, the kind engineered for anorexics and diabetics…and maybe Europeans.
Jul 31, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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The Witching Hours
“Sleep, those little slices of death–how I loathe them.”–Edgar Allen Poe
Jun 4, 2025
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London Girlfriend
She was my London girlfriend, which basically means she showed me around and we fucked for a week before losing touch pretty much forever.
May 20, 2025
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Salad Days and Baseball
Revised and originally published in “Backyards to Ballparks”
Apr 25, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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Palm Springs Baby
Smoking a joint in a shitty bar parking lot.
Apr 22, 2025
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Gary Trujillo
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Candied Almonds and Kafka
She always talked about leaving for Paris, Madrid, and Prague.
Apr 4, 2025
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Wine Drunk
My girlfriend's mother was always seemingly wine-drunk, very rarely seeing life outside of the groggy fish bowl of perpetual intoxication.
Mar 6, 2025
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