
We broke into a vacant apartment in the projects and turned it into a clubhouse. The apartment was furnished with a mattress and milk crates.
We drank…

The first joint I smoked was with my babysitter, Angie.
I was ten.
Angie, a long time friend of my mother’s, sat at the kitchen table.
She carefully…

Being a street worker secretly seduced me.
I loved walking the streets, listening to secular music, inhaling the smoothing smell of weed as it burned in a…

Porshai did the "pee-pee" dance while we waited in the cold and nearly empty subway station.
When Porshai had to "go" where there was no bathroom I told her…

We made one hundred sandwiches.
In our kitchen, my roommate sliced the ham, bologna, and turkey, and I spread Miracle Whip on the wheat bread. We put the…