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The Goldfish Man

ShortStory 6,318 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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"I live in my car. It’s both worse and better than you’d expect. It’s an old Subaru hatchback so I can put the back seat down and sleep. I have all my stuff in the back but I have a space where I can lay. The place where I park is, like, the unofficial place for homeless people. If you cross the main drag, Venice, you’re in Culver City and the cops there are death on homeless."

First ContactFriendshipIntimate

More tags 15

SlipstreamClass InequalityUrbanWrySurvivalSocial SFContemporaryLiterary SFContemplativeBelongingFirst PersonVoice DrivenBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

Content warnings 2

illness-and-pandemicsubstance-use

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