SERIAL: PART 2 Fear of the Unknown and Self-Loathing in Hollywood or Doctor Midnite and The Great White Whale Hunt of ’93

Part II of A Serial in Three Parts

Part 2

Melrose. Midnight. The streets are wet and blue and there’s an orange fog made such by the lights along the street. We’re outside a bar called the Snake Pit. There’s no one along the street. The front doors are wide open and we walk inside.

It’s dark. Dark tables. Tiny red hurricane lamps. A large bartender in the shadows who has either played a He…