To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.
When Eira survives a fall that should have erased her, her body becomes a spectacle before she ever regains consciousness. Immobilized in a hospital bed, she watches as images of her unconscious form spread across the world, transforming private suffering into public property—and tragedy into profit. As fame and money grow faster than her recovery, Eira must confront a life reshaped by forces she never chose.
a Paul & Paula 21 story
What happens between two stories I've already posted. But there are some stories I haven't written... yet. But I feel you should be told what happened between happy times and having to run away. So, here it is. -- I'm numbering them so that they will be listed in chronological order. Every now and then I might stick something in that happened before something else.