I expressed my frustration loudly and twisted the key for the fifth time. The choked sound of the engine was enough to trigger tears in my eyes.

I reached down to check my phone again, as if the battery would magically become at least one percent higher.

The screen stayed black.

I leaned back into the cars black leather seat and closed my eyes.

This couldn’t be happening.

I wasn’t here.

I wasn’t a...

Being homeless wasn’t great but I didn’t expect it to be this bad. It all started when my company collapsed, I carried an abundant amount of debts it led me to become a homeless man who was even having a hard time finding shelter. All I had left was a small car that I kept for nostalgia as my first car, I never thought of me using this old car again. I’m glad I made the right choice to move to the...

I didn’t expect the windows to fog up but my breath was making the air warm inside my car with all the windows closed.

I really didn’t feel safe but at least I had some shelter and my doors were locked.

Mum bought me this car I really wanted,I couldn’t stop her and I am really grateful.

I wonder what she would think if she knew now that I was spending the night cuddled up in my own arms on the...

“Okay. We can still talk about this.” Pliao said nervously to Hioana.

“It’s too late for that. Sioa.”

Sioa immediately pulled him towards the door. “Come on.” She growled. “Stop resisting!”

She eventually got him out the door.

Once they disappeared, Hioana sank to the floor. “I still can’t believe it.” She sobbed.

Just then the tall man came into the room. “You alright? I saw them walk out of...

Hioana stepped calmly into her apartment. Then she kicked the coffee table angrily.

"Why me?" She shouted.

"What happened, babe?" Her husband poked out from the kitchen. "And take it easy on the coffee table."

"We're getting evicted!" Hioana cried.

"What? How?" Her husband stepped fully out of the kitchen.

"I don't know! The owner just told me as I was coming up here!" She growled, kicking th...

It was an unexpected turn of events that found me stranded in the heart of a bustling city, forced to spend the night in the confines of my car. As darkness descended upon the streets, I braced myself for the challenges and experiences that lay ahead.

The city, usually a cacophony of noise and movement, seemed to take on a different persona under the cover of night. The streets, once crowded with...

It was locked, the car door couldn't and wouldn't budge, I couldn't escape the Uber, and the Uber driver said that he needed gas so we had stopped at a gas station, and then he said that it is a rough part of town so just before he closed the car door he locked the Uber with his keys, which are oddly the only thing that could lock and unlock the car. And right after he did that he walked to go and...

My humble abode

Just me and everything I owned

So far from home

The great big city I roam

Left with only my car

Wishing upon star by star

To have enough to eat

My warm bed a backseat

People pass by

Some walk past and sigh

Others offer kindness

I’m grateful for their status blindness

So, yes I live in a big city

But my life isn’t ideal or pretty

What I wouldn’t give to be a part of this city

In...

I knew the door would be locked when I got home. Curfew was 9, and by the time I dropped off Steenie and came home it was 15 after. Last time I tried the door after curfew I woke her up and was kicked out the whole weekend, so it was easier to tell her I slept over at Steenie’s instead....

Friday is kissing close to Saturday and the clubs are too close with their music and bodies packed in too tight, spilling over to the streets. You: are huddled underneath a blanket in the backseat, too broke for a hotel, too broke to join the fun, hoping your bladder holds until it’s quieter out there. You don’t want to deal with the horde of drunk people passing the car, all of them loud and thre...