Stories that pose the question: in Los Angeles, is Cupid just another out-of-work actor?

CONTENTS

1. A LESSON IN LOVE

Former swinger, now happily married Jack Winston tries to straighten out his hormonal teenage sons with a cautionary tale about his history of looking for love in all the wrong places.

2. FIRST LOVE. PART 1.

When a New York doctor and LA film director fall in love on a hiking trip they must manage dream and reality across the wide continent that separates them.

3. DON'T SPIT ON THIS PITCH

A successful screenwriter pitches an animated film for adults about 3 LA wannabes looking for fame, fortune and if time permits, love.

4. BEACHED IN VENICE

Failure to perform belittles our hapless hero in this Kafkaesque tale.

5. TINSELTOWN. AD 1972.

A hick comes to Hollywood looking for the kind of divine platinum blondes he's seen in the movies, only to find that celluloid can be deceiving.

6. FIRST LOVE. PART 2.

7. A HIT MOVIE, MEANT TO BE

Love can be a hurting thing.

8. TOO DEEP FOR TEARS

featuring Private Detective John Marriner.

The corpse of a former nun turned actress/model has been found in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park and her onetime Mother Superior asks Banning private detective John Marriner—a decorated war veteran with stress and other disorders—to search for her killer on the mean streets of LA, where he was last seen bitchslapping the city Police Chief.

9. HONEST ABE

The life and career of the honestest used car dealer in Southern California, if not the world.

10. LET THE BELL RING

11. FIRST LOVE. PART 3.