Zip-tied in a motel by a strung-out captor, a man who makes others feel what he feels tells the story of his life to buy one more hour before death.
Three voices. One literary house.
Tag: street life
An undercover agent posing as a junkie hunts a ghost through 1990s New York on guitar alone — never knowing the woman sheltering him already knows it all.
A street bookseller is told to move, and he’s complying — when a dozen officers turn one polite request into something that scars him for life.
A busking addict on the Lower East Side spends an afternoon with a stranger who claims to be Death — a darkly funny reckoning with addiction and race.