Ken Janjigian

Ken Janjigian is the author of a collection of novellas and two novels, most recently A Cerebral Offer (Livingston Press, University of West Alabama, 2020), which won an Independent Publisher Book Award for Urban Fiction (2021). All his fiction explores contemporary bohemian life focusing on the lives of artists and eccentric characters. He also wrote Kerouac, a biopic screenplay about the legendary Beat author. It was an official selection at several film festivals and won Best Biopic at the Indie Cinema Awards in Helsinki (2022).

Confluence at Café Zurich

A Necessary Escape
I had been plotting my escape from Valeria for many months before I actually did it. Maybe she was plotting as well, each of us secretly planning our way out. We were both exhausted from our near daily drama, like a marathoner in mile 25, but with no finish line. The fights had lost any real meaning. We were fighting because that’s what we did. Their only purpose was to provide the toxic nourishment that fuels dysfunctional relationships.
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