TRUE, SEMI-TRUE & TRUE LIES

Lies can hurt. Lies can kill. The most dangerous often the ones we tell ourselves.
Four tales of addiction about fictional and not-so-fictional people and places.
THE TRAIN FROM TUCUMCARI
Max had been to Clayton, New Mexico many times by car and stayed at the Eklund hotel often. This time, perhaps his last, he came on the train from Tucumcari.
BOOZE & BETRAYAL
Two love affairs and two betrayals. The story of a man with two consuming loves. The one pushed him further down a dark road and altered the course of his life, and the other, his one true love that almost destroyed him.
KAYLEE NIGHTBIRD
A young Native American girl - a victim of drugs, alcohol and sexual abuse, finds her own way out.
THE TAVERN
They say you can never go back, and maybe you shouldn't. Twelve years after he left his hometown a man returns to visit his dying father. One afternoon he takes a trip down memory lane and perhaps finds a date with destiny.