The Mailbox That Vanished, And Other Tales

Reflections on the Los Feliz That Was

The first thing I loved about the neighborhood of Los Feliz was the unexpected effect of dropping an envelope holding a short story of mine into the mailbox at the corner of Vermont and Melbourne. This was in early 1991. I slammed the box’s trapdoor twice to make sure my envelope had dropped inside of it. When I came back, the whole mailbox had disappeared. I asked people at the post office about it, but they said they didn’t believe a mailbox had ever been at that location, despite rust …