The fictional Sunset Inn is a seedy Motel with a storied past on a neglected block of Hollywood Boulevard.
Sometimes raw, and often humorous, this timely debut collection pierces through both the loneliness and the humanity of distressed outliers temporarily set adrift by circumstance in the American underbelly..
William Torphy portrays these characters with both empathy and wry humor, revealing their universal desire for love and connection, recognition and security.
A gay, middle-aged gallery owner confronts his own errant past when his troubled teenage nephew visits.
A female impersonator replaces her glamorous mentor on stage.
A teenage boy flees his hometown to escape persecution.
A Filipina internet bride struggles to maintain her autonomy in suburban America.
Four interrelated Stories complete the collection.
An elderly couple checking in to the same room where they first met sixty years earlier.
A Vietnamese mama\'s boy waiting to meet his foreign bride.
A disgraced politician forced into hiding.
The addict mother of a newborn infant facing a fateful reunion with her long-lost brother.
Central American immigrants from civil war celebrating their honeymoon.
A man who dances with dolls.
Edward, the motel\'s cynical but occasionally accommodating manager, confronts a daily cast of ever-changing characters.
In twenty linked tales, Motel Stories takes an empathetic deep dive into the eccentricities and troubled lives of the diverse guests who check in to this refuge of last resort-for either pleasure or escape, and always an interrupted night\'s sleep.
The fictional Sunset Inn is a seedy Motel with a storied past on a neglected block of Hollywood Boulevard
