Email Author Melissa Hung

1999 Stories by Melissa Hung

• Real Life

  published December 16, 1999

  Recipe for a headache: 1) Cover all surface area, including storefronts, walls and flooring with at least five bright, obnoxious... More >>

• Bar Fight

  published December 9, 1999

  Margaret Lindsey is not by nature an angry person. Most of the time she's as good-natured as she is now, standing over the kitchen sink of... More >>

• Bored? Tired?...

  published November 11, 1999

  So Lilith Fair skipped Houston this year. Big deal. The way L7 lead babe Donita Sparks sees it, you didn't want to go anyway. It would have been a... More >>

• Reefer Madness?

  published November 4, 1999

  Angela Jenkins grabbed her common-law husband by the shoulders and shook him from his sleep. It was time; the baby was coming. At three in the... More >>

• Local Rotation

  published October 28, 1999

  Kayfabe The Hellen Keller Tapes Kayfabe Redundant. That's the overriding impression of Kayfabe's new... More >>

• Coming Out

  published October 21, 1999

  When the couple argued, Lisa threatened to drown the dogs or snap the kittens' necks. A year after the verbal and mental abuse began, when it was... More >>

• Real Life

  published October 7, 1999

  When some people stress out, they take a bubble bath among lit candles. Or strum a familiar tune on a guitar, or shoot some hoop. Then there's... More >>

• Treated Like a Dog

  published September 30, 1999

  Roy Pike says his dog, Chief, "ran a close second to my kids." If Pike went shopping, so did the chow. When the family went boating in a nearby... More >>

• Here Come the Brides

  published September 2, 1999

  Eleanora Piombino is not sure she likes what she sees. Staring at the pearly white heels with typical pointy toes, she adjusts the atypical... More >>

• DeLay's Way

  published August 19, 1999

  Carmencita Abad says six years in the brutal conditions of a Saipan sweatshop still left her unprepared for the reception she got in another... More >>

• Culture Scouts

  published August 5, 1999

  If there is a focus point in Beth Madison's wooded one-story home, it is the dining room, where an oil painting of a voluptuous Gauguin-like woman... More >>

• Hey, Bubba: Give Peace a Chance

  published August 5, 1999

  Littleton. Then, last week, Atlanta. If recent shooting rampages are any indication, Americans live in a culture of violence. And a Houston... More >>

• Sitcom Survivor

  published July 22, 1999

  Margaret Cho suffers from the opposite of stage fright. In real life, she's a mess. "I have incredible difficulties doing the smallest... More >>

• Media Row on Death Row

  published July 15, 1999

  It's hard to get on Texas's death row these days — if you want to interview an inmate there. According to regulations that cover death... More >>