ASIN: B00PM23L3O
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 108
A friendly rivalry goes too far in an intentional community in Los Angeles.
Prologue:
It was the second week of September.
I was sitting around a fire-pit in the large, grassy backyard of the house that I shared with a half-dozen roommates near downtown LA. The house was a sprawling green Craftsman, with hardwood floors and wide, sunny windows. The backyard had a small garden, a tin shed, and a tall, leafy tree that produced buckets full of lemons.
Our latest addition, a miniature Schnauzer, scampered across the lawn.
My friends and I had just gotten back from the Burning Man Festival near Reno, NV. It was my fourth time — my first with a theme camp — and we’d made friends with a handful of Australians and other world travelers who had spent the week with us. We’d invited them to join us for one last grill night before they left LA.
Some brought dusty suitcases, preparing to catch an ...
