This is the good shit, injected directly into your veins: the elaborate myths of homeless shelter kids.
To homeless children sleeping on the street, neon is as comforting as a night-light. Angels love colored light too. After nightfall in downtown Miami, they nibble on the NationsBank building — always drenched in a green, pink, or golden glow. “They eat light so they can fly,” eight-year-old Andre tells the children sitting on the patio of the Salvation Army’s emergency shelter on NW 38th Street. Andre explains that the angels hide in the building while they study battle maps. “There’s a lot of killing going on in Miami,” he says. “You want to fight, want to learn how to live, you got to learn the secret stories.” The small group listens intently to these tales told by homeless children in shelters.
“On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious demon attack — a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust his palace of beautiful blue-moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives.”
Jesus, that’s actually frightening. That’s how you know it’s good…when you can feel your nerves react. There’s truth in there.
This is absolutely beautiful. The perfect genesis for a story, UA or otherwise.
Wow.
This is so amazingly excellent, someone did it already.
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Yes, but we’re not all on the UA Mailing list, these days. But, it is, indeed, Good Shit.