Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Union Pacific in motion behind Walker Foods.
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Screaming stallion.
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Get off on Indiana.
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
She does henna.
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
All day. Every day.
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Broadway bridge between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights.
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
(Please excuse any grammatical errors. All short stories by Solovino Reyes are in development and will be edited throughout the year.)
Based on a poem written last year.
Solovino Reyes was alone again; holding a slight grudge against life he walked through the porthole-esque streets of downtown Los Angeles where the drudgery stained gray walls and the black asphalt suffered to create some kind of stimuli for his mind. But like a wet book of matches, damp and flaccid, he experienced no sparks, no kindle, no nada; only a relentless sinking feeling coaxing him further down the dim obscurity of the night.
Earlier in the evening, the bustle of the bar scene failed to kick start the good side of his duality and at 4a.m., around here you won’t find the good side of anything. In a drunken progression he passes by all the closed restaurants and businesses. No one is around. There are no ridiculous art-walk crowds to distract him from himself. No lady to steal a kiss from. At his age he shouldn’t be trying to steal kisses anyway. So he flips the mental middle finger at his current reality with a shrug of the shoulders and a voice in his head says, “Fuck it all. Who cares.”
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Lifegaurd Stand 13, Huntington Beach, CA
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
On Hope Street, downtown.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Ghost rider heading west on Blanchard and Hicks.
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Rafael Cardenas, was born in 1971 in Pihuamo, Jalisco: a small town in the central part of Mexico on the western coast. His parents migrated to the US in 1974. He grew up in, and still lives in, East Los Angeles. His writing and photography comes from his fascination with words and the creative process.