"Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues"

My flash fiction "Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues" has been published at Shoots and Vines. My thanks to editor Crystal Folz for taking this one. Go check it out - if nothing else, it's very short and won't take more than a few minutes of your time.

Though this didn't make it into my author bio, I'd like to give a huge nod to David Berman of the Silver Jews, from whose song "Smith + Jones Forever" I borrowed a line for the title of the story. The story and song don't have much in common other than that, but I've always loved that song, which made me think about street people who live in the most humble of circumstances and long for the most commonplace of things ("they walk the alleys in duct-taped shoes/they see the things they want through the window of a hatchback"). From there it was a short jump to the first character, and then to the story itself.