The same sun scorched downtown Los Angeles that had seared the Iraq desert. Army Private First Class Samantha Cummings stood at attention holding a stack of boxes, her unwashed black hair slicked back in a ponytail and knotted military style. She stared out from Roberts Shoe Store onto Broadway, transfixed by a homeless man with hair and scraggly beard the color of ripe tomatoes. She’d only seen that hair color […]
Antonia Schuster | Escape
The plane has just crossed the coast. The dark gold land below, drenched now in long shadows, has given way to an ethereal blue, a dreamy blue which feels like a sigh of relief. The map on the screen shows they’ve flown over Derby and are now in the vast reaches of the Indian Ocean. She sits unmoving and her eyes are wavering and blurring with the sleeplessness of the […]
Leslie Dianne | The Value of Old Shoes
Street cleaners have orders to clean this place where the man left his waste get rid of the cans, the newspapers the shopping cart, the baseball cap with the company’s name that wouldn’t hire him On the top of the pile his old shoes with the soles torn off like a dog had attacked them and left the memory of what it was like to be ripped apart in the […]
Homeless Family Finds Help in Seattle’s Tent City 3
Josiah, Tricia and their son live in Tent City 3, a city-sanctioned tent community in Seattle. Around 70 homeless people call Tent City 3 home. In an ideal world, tent communities should not exist because homeless services should be able to get everyone into housing. But since we don’t live in a perfect world and there is a severe lack of housing and shelter beds, sanctioned tent cites provide invaluable […]
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