"If you’re at the county hospital parked in the three-minute pull-out by that new clinic building, and the employee you’re picking up doesn’t come out, you see an opera. Verismo." Flash fiction by Seattle-based writer Valerie Trueblood.
Tag: homeless
When home is a parking spot
Scott Owens is one of more than 2,000 people living in their vehicles across Seattle. In vans and cars, this segment of the homeless population lives a fragile existence on the margins, finding it difficult to get access to bathrooms and showers--and always facing the possibility of eviction by police.