It’s early morning; I am standing in a parking structure above the city. There are colored concrete buildings festooned with their painted advertisements of bygone years surrounding me. The paint now faded and peeling away, falls silently into the vine like streets of Downtown San Diego California. There’s a secret below me, it’s a place where serpents and dragons carouse among giant millipedes, Basilisk, and Bird eating spiders. For some, this place might be a horror show.
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