House locked, backpack over
my shoulder, I walked down the driveway to the gravel road. Getting close I saw the sign resting at the
woman’s feet and I got an inkling of what Dad had meant.
The sign read ‘Kip Arnett
Was Murdered’.
Kip was one of the tens of
thousands of hopeful actors and actresses who populate Los Angeles, looking for
the break that catapults them from obscurity to the spotlight.
She’d been found starved to
death in a Hollywood apartment. She'd been battling a drug addiction, but more
interesting was the fact she was a practicing member of Lucentology.
The press spin on the
tragedy was that instead of going through detox or getting herself to a rehab
facility, Kip had tried to tough it out using Lucentology methods to make
herself clean and pure. According to the
literature, Lucentology Centers were always available to help anyone – not just
members – deal with addictions, but it could become costly. Just because anyone was welcome didn’t mean
it was free.
Kip had appeared on one of
the videos for The Program, the 12-disc series for people interested in
becoming Lucentologists. Just a quick
appearance, but the press had used it as fodder for stories after her death.
The woman on the shoulder
of the road was a cute, short blonde, almost a perfect copy of the relatively
unknown comedienne who’d been found weighing all of 66 pounds, her face partially
eaten away by a housecat.
Lucid
cover sketch courtesy the gloriously talented
Jenny Dayton.
Lucid
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