until gwen   (quote)

Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon, with an 8-ball of coke in the glove compartment and a hooker named Mandy in the back seat. Two minutes into the ride, the prison still hanging tilted in the rearview, Mandy tells you that she only hooks part-time. The rest of the time she does light secretarial for an independent video chain and tends bar, two Sundays a month, at the local VFW. But she feels her calling—her true calling in life—is to write.

You go, "Books?"

...read the rest (dead link) (this appears to have disappeared off of the web entirely... even the google cache is gone. try to get your hands on a June 2004 Atlantic (the one with Tony Blair on the cover) if you want to read this.

/too bad, good read