Three Eighty-One

Trevor Minton is a well-adjusted man, living a pretty familiar version of the American dream. He’s a public relations executive in San Francisco, has a lovely wife and three children. Everything changes when their baby asphyxiates on a button eye from a stuffed animal that Trevor had given the infant. Emotionally crippled by this tragedy, Trevor walks out of his house, leaving his family behind. Unable to cope with his former life, he chooses a new existence as a cab driver, working night and day, driving fares around the city, journeying through the hidden realms of his soul. Redeemed through the interactions he inherits with his new vocation, Trevor mourns the loss of his previous world, while building back the Trevor Minton that it turns out had never abandoned him. His pilgrimage leads him to the dankest corners of San Francisco, and ultimately back to where he’d begun.

David J. Marx lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family. Among several past careers has been a cab driver in both Chicago and San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Masters Program in Writing and Consciousness at New College of California.