"Greenline"

New fiction! It's some drama-ed up reportage from the worst stops along the Los Angeles subway system, and I'm quite happy with it. Starts like this:

You take the green line of the Los Angeles subway system from LAX to Norwalk Station, where you will catch another train into another part of town. Reportedly the subway, called Metro, cost three million dollars per mile to build. If in many cities, older cities, the subway is akin to veins, here it is not that internal. Here in the capitol of the automobile it is more like a spiderweb spun across the city’s face while it was sleeping, left there without supervision. It is a place for the lower reaches of the working classes, construction workers, crackheads, women with infants and children, drunks, community college students, and people who like to think that riding it proves something. Read more