Solo: A Short Story of a Broken Guitar, a Borrowed Gun, and a Stolen Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798175900003)

Some nights take everything except the one thing that's actually yours.

Suburban Southern California, 2003. Nineteen-year-old Alex finds out from a pop-up ad that his band - the family he built in his own garage - is playing tonight without him. No meeting. No phone call. Just a promo photo with a gap where he used to stand.

By midnight he's on a dark two-lane road in a car that isn't his, with his stepfather's gun and no plan at all.

Then his headlights find a woman walking the centerline. Bloodied. Concussed. She can't remember her own name - but she can't stop humming a melody that feels like the only thing she owns.

He can't leave her there. She has somewhere to be. And neither of them knows what the night already knows about the two of them.

One car. One gun. One song. Before the sun comes up, both of them will have to decide what's worth destroying - and what's finally worth building.

A 45-minute read for anyone who's ever been left behind by the thing they loved most.