Despair, 'Our House'

Bradley E. Clift

The Hartford Courant

Chinacloset Doll--In the shooting gallery where Jessica and Chris live, there are weekends when junkies file through and shoot up in a room viewable from this china cabinet and watched her parents and people from the neightborhood shoot up. 'Oh that's gross,' she said and vowed never to become an addict. The neglect and the fear the children live under started three years ago when their father left their mother and became a addicted. Since then, they have lived in these conditions.

Bradley E. Clift, "Despair, 'Our House'," in POYi Archive, Item #19640, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/19640 (accessed November 23, 2024).