Sydney Townsend is a 38 year old writer and artist. Through divorcing her abusive husband of eight years and sex therapy she faces a reality check that she is mainly attracted to women. Curious of the supernatural, she stumbles upon a bar after rece...
The city that never sleeps. They say it's New York, but I have also found it to be true in LA. It is a town immersed in the finer things of life, where the rich waste their money on the materialistic world. Many have worked their asses off to gain success, some were just lucky, but others are just barely making it here. One of those people is me.
My name is Sydney Miller. I am a writer and have been a freelance artist in Los Angeles for over twelve years now. Things were good, for awhile, until I left my husband of eight years two months ago. There were reasons, valid reasons, but now it seems like I've lost everything. I am alone, most of the time. Yet it feels better this way, at least without Owen. In the end he didn't believe in my dreams, physiologically and emotionally abusive to the point where I didn't know myself anymore. But there was the another big issue, my sexuality.
I never considered the possibility that I may also be attracted to women. Maybe I just pushed it down for so many years due to my particularly strict upbringing. Coming from the intimate Bible belt of Jacksonville Florida; when I had moved to Los Angeles I believed to make it big in the city you needed a good job, get married to a partner with an even better job, typically a man if you were a woman. A good number of people would secretly look down on you otherwise.
Image is known to be everything here in LA, everyone judging everyone and what you physically have to show for your life. Being perfect, rich and on the straight and narrow seemed to be the perfect image of success here. But I was far from being perfect, rich, or possibly even straight.
Times have drastically changed however. People are far more accepting of being gay especially in states like California. But still...I can't grasp the concept that I have a deeper attraction to the same sex, especially being originally from the south. It is a completely different vibe from the city I live in now.
I have lived in Los Angeles since I started college at 18. Ever since I was a teenager I wanted to go to one of the most famous creative art schools in the country, California Institute of the Arts. But although art was more of the obvious choice set for me, fictional writing was what I became the most passionate about, minoring in creative writing. After eight years of schooling, I graduated with both degrees in hand and even bigger goals set for myself.
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I am also a woman of weird interests. In recent years I've written two supernatural novels that made some noticeable profit. They were specifically about one supernatural force...vampires. Something about them has always drawn me in; beautiful, dark, dangerous immortal beings that thrive on blood in the night. I mean who doesn't love a sexy badass in an all black ensemble.
Another thing about LA is the popularity of its night life, especially in the last ten years. This is a booming business alone: Restaurants, entertainment, and especially the club and bar scene. It intrigued me when I actually went out to experience it. There was something exhilarating about the night time, something that you don't typically experience any other time of day.
