COMPLETED 2009

The passion is to go out at night. But to step into the darkness is to face the cruelty of the night. The novel documents a world without daytime where the night weaves its constant legacy.

EA is a breath in the letters. It vibrates in the words. It speaks within her. She takes it as her name.

CRUCIAL asserts himself among this struggle for the undefinable COOL. Always too intense, he plunges into the heat of the night. From Midwest breezes to the burning nights of Atlanta.

From his origins among the CRUCIALITIES, he throws himself into the legendary night clubs: THE CUBE, RESTLESS, and LUCKY’S.

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