"Beastly Bus Tales" is Jim Marquez's 13th self-published book in 7 years The premise to this one is simple: 'Jack Morales', our stumbling writer of extreme minor celebrity from Jim's novel "Pieces of L.A.," has just one lousy wish: to get home after a raucous night of the white man's whiskey. For this Jack takes the bus. And, there, kids, is the rub For after the witching hour in the City of Angels many beasts go bump in the night, and we discover that Jack is not alone. Here then are Jack's BEASTLY TALES; boots on the ground, pushing his way through the walls of madness and indignation, the wretched adrift, the drunken, the dealers, the addicts, the prostitutes, their pimps, the amateurs, the cops, the artists, the rats, (oh christ, the rats ), and the English teachers, molesters of the night all of them Shameful, despicable gluttony; slithering its way into the second decade of the 21st century.