Lonely Just Looking: The California Novel

It's the end of the century. Cell phones are not yet all the rage and the world wide web seems more like a novelty. The world is changing, though. The Californians are moving in. This sleepy town will never be the same. Old buildings get knocked down and big boxes spring up. Don't blink. If you close your eyes, they open to something new that sparkles and shines. It happens in this city, and in that one too because they pull from a few sets of blueprints, a digital catalog where one size fits all, so everything looks eerily similar. And what to do if you just don't know where you fit? You're 25 and you wander around, driving here and driving there, meeting up with friends, watching all the pretty people, and wondering all the while why they seem to have figured it out, whatever it is. Your warehouse eyes can't find what the heart seeks. Put another song on the jukebox. Let's go.