Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.

I start to float, I float away from the earth.

Have you ever smoked crack before?

We're all kind of frantically searching for meetings.

They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all

juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken. Crazed delinquents. We're in our

last day, young man. Listen to Here Be Monsters, the podcast about the unknown on the KCRW iTunes page.

I'm Bob Carlson and you're listening to a special holiday presentation of UnFictional from KCRW's independent producer project.

Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries normally heard on Friday evenings

and Tuesday afternoons on KCRW, podcast anytime of course, but on this special holiday version of the program

we'll be listening to some stories we broadcast over the past year.

They're not really holiday stories exactly, but a few might fit some holiday themes like love and community, but also loneliness and alienation.

But that's for later. Let's start with the community part.

Storyteller Jessica Lee Williamson lives in one of those places where the neighbors

don't hate each other exactly.

It's more of a casual contempt. But when some new neighbors move in, who are even more

contemptible, a tight-knit community is born. From KCRW.com it's an

unfictional holiday special. When it comes to silver linings, there's nothing like a meth house to bring a community together.

Up until that, we were only neighbors in the sense that we lived in close proximity to one another.

The couple who like to argue, the old man who bred boxer

puppies in his front yard just for fun. There was a homeless guy who was always drunk. Once

he dropped his pants and went number two in the middle of

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