Brief Comfort

Larry Price

Philadelphia Inquirer

Clifford and Dawn Chester sleep in an abandoned house in Philadelphia where they had stashed a mattress and mound of carpet matting for a blanket. Both were unemployed and among 4000 new poor without homes, displaced by a bad economy in the northeast.

Larry Price, "Brief Comfort," in POYi Archive, Item #13342, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13342 (accessed June 23, 2025).