Loaded Stories
Memories and Tales of Fathers, 1970s California, and Other Complications
Personal Essay (2013)
Cover by Jeff McElroy
Loaded Stories is a personal essay about growing up in wild 1970s California, my hard-partying fathers, and how our lives were shaped by guns.
Excerpt
The first story—the tabloid headline, page 5—is that my father was murdered, shot, before I had a chance to really meet him.