Stories tagged with "poverty"

  • The Dealer

    by Zinc Oxide about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    In elementary school the free lunch tickets were not a stigma. No one really noticed that you got your lunch for free but in …

  • The Falling Men in Their Fancy Suits Inspired by a photo

    by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    When the market crashed and those men in their fancy suits jumped from any open window they could find, no one thought of us….

  • Phone call Inspired by text

    by Cobweb about 1 year ago 3 out of 5 stars

    All too easy to blame myself for what happened. I had certainly done so on many occasions in the last two years that I suffer…

  • who would have known...a poverty tale

    by elfenworks about 1 year ago 3 out of 5 stars

    ” Well at least he didn’t have to suffer for very long” I heard the pudgy old lady from next door mumble with a mouth full of…

  • more important things.. a poverty tale

    by elfenworks about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 stars

    My mother was “too afraid” to go and register me for elementary school. She thought people wouldn’t be able to understand her…