When Everything Cracks
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When Everything Cracks
I've been kidnapped by aliens dressed as cops. They moved me from their prison to a simulated hospital. I can leave any time, but they won't let me. If I don't escape, they'll keep me here forever. If I use the telephone, the phone company will sell my innermost secrets to the government. If I ta...
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24 The Empty Boxcar
A familiar, shaky feeling returns, leading Duncan on a dubious date with destiny.
Please note - This marks the end of Book I - 5150. We...
22 The Schizophrenia Project
Duncan is enlisted in a double-blind study. It's the blind leading the blind.
21 Day Treatment
Duncan has an unpleasant clean-up project, and bemoans the woes of Adult Day Care.
20 Glamorous Offspring
Dixie introduces Duncan to her "children" who inhabit the pages of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
19 Northeast Lodge
Duncan gets to leave the hospital and move to his new digs at Northeast Lodge. A bowl of strawberries connects him to his past and gives him hope for...
18 Interview
Word of Warning - the Audio was recorded using the wrong microphone, but I was able to mostly "fix it in post." It's so hot, I also had to have a fan...
17 A Letter to Donny
I find my journal. I still have this journal. The entries are verbatim. I kept two journals during my episode. I often wondered if it was a symptom of...
16 Social Security
The responses to the social security questionnaire are taken verbatim from a sheet I found. I didn't make anything up! The guy WAS cute, and it was sa...
15 The Return of Jimmy Simple
This chapter needs very little introduction, since the main plot point is in the episode name. It's a sad but touching story.
14 Aftermath
Duncan is recovering after getting his head smacked into the pavement by a hot San Francisco cop. He knows where he is. A series of visitors leads him...
13 The Plan
Duncan's show of best behavior pays off. They give him an envelope and cash and escort him off the ward so he can buy everyone their cigarettes and ca...
12 Here You Are
Duncan gets a visit from Brenda, Sue, and Donny. He takes a huge risk and tells them about his plan.
11 The Rosebush
Duncan does his best to be the ideal captive aboard the spaceship. Betsy has let him know he can make it out if he's good. But Jimmy Simple isn't buyi...
10 Time Is a Comma
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09 Loss of Time
In blips and blackness, Duncan discovers he's in a different kind of facility. Although it is obvious to the reader that he is hospitalized, Duncan ha...
08 General (Hospital)
The title of this first volume of "When Everything Cracks" is "5150." The title comes from the form a jail facility must fill out to transfer an inma...
07 - Identity Is the Crisis
This planet sucks! I get shuffled from room to room, kicked, cursed out, my head held to the floor, and worst of all, I give away my dollar bill and r...
06 - Arrested by Aliens
It's just like it sounds. Aliens dressed as cops abduct me while I switch identities from Gertrude Stein to Andy Warhol (Harlow, just to confuse them)...
05 - Duncan Ends, Gertrude Stein Begins
Now that I know where itts att, the cracks widen, and everything falls apart. I'm Gertrude Stein. I belong at the Top of The Mark, where aliens will e...
04 - The Idea
I'm suddenly struck with an idea. It's the beginning of the cracks that formed in the sidewalk of my brain. It progresses until I suddenly figure out...
03 - Hoboes of Oakland
In a misguided attempt to escape imminent financial doom, Donny and I decide to hop a boxcar to Los Angeles, with disappointing results.
02 - Let’s Submerge (Goin' Down to the Underground)
Donny and I get our Goth on at the Underground, where we meet up with Lola and get high. As I wake up out of my opium cloud, I see and hear things tha...
01 - Hoboes, Junkies, and Witches
Intro to Series
"When Everything Cracks" is a mental health memoir set in Old San Francisco. Duncan MacLeod, the author, reads his manuscript. B...