The Falling Circle

by Jeffrey Matucha

The Falling Circle is the story of Giff, urban punk extraordinaire. He moves from place to place around the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980's, working the only part-time wage slave job he can find and struggling to find some sort of structure in the hard-boiled and bizarre world of the concrete jungle.


Couch surfing at friends places, Giff is on the move to find a new place to live. He wades through speed freak rivetheads, avant garde dyke artists and flaked-out drug-addled friends before resorting to sleeping in the park. He finally finds a new place, a place filled with dominatrixes, gutter punks, and all manner of nomadic urban dwellers. He struggles to hang on in a house of chaos as the turnstile of roommates, drugs, clubbers and punks threaten to run him over in his own home.


The world of the urban poor is a story of hardship and struggle, but it's also a really bizarre world. Take a look into the big city underground with The Falling Circle.

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First published August 8, 2011

About the author

I am a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. I was born and raised in this region, unlike most other citizens of the Bay Area who are from another state or another country. I am a veteran of the punk/metal/new wave/oh-my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night club scenes of the San Francisco Bay Area in the Eighties and the early Nineties. I run marathons, I write novels, I meow back at cats and say hi to strange dogs that I meet. I am also a web applications engineer and a dedicated worker bee for the Oakland Athletics.