May 8, 2020
5 min read
Life Stories
An old reporter burns his clippings to stay warm but then he has nothing left.
“Whachoo got there, ol’ man?”
He raised his head and met the bloodshot eyes of the skinny guy on the neighboring cot who had just spoken. Another junkie. Or tweaker. Or crackhead. Same difference. Like all the young ones in the shelter. He looked back down at the tattered newspaper clippings he had spilled from an envelope onto the cot.
