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    Houston: City Streets Homeless Kids
    Houston: City Streets Homeless Kids
    Houston: City Streets Homeless Kids
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    Houston: City Streets Homeless Kids

    By Van Allen

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    Another Van Allen Memoir: This is a short story retelling a recent encounter I had in Dallas, Texas where someone needed my help. That encounter brought to memory the tragic stories of the homeless kids I saw on the streets of Houston when I was a teenager.

    Some of them had tragic stories to tell about why they were homeless, why they lived on the streets, why the streets were better than being at home. Some of them were abused. A young boy was stabbed and set on fire by his mother’s boyfriend. One girl I talked to lived on the streets prostituting. She said some old men like really young girls. I talked to another kid, a boy that everyone called Red, a red-headed Black kid like me, except I had freckles and he didn’t. I had seen Red a few times in the streets. Red was a thief. Red would tell you that some old men like young boys. He was also a prostitute.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVan Allen
    Release dateMar 21, 2018
    ISBN9781370949045
    Houston: City Streets Homeless Kids
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    Van Allen

    Van Allen Fiction by Screaming Weasel Productions is my latest work. I'm a former Captain in the US Marines who now writes thrillers and futuristic adventures, including stories with conspiracy theories, alien invasions, space wars, and of course the zombie apocalypse. In my 21-year military career, I developed expertise in both combat training early on and then criminal investigations later on. While in the Marines, I completed a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Texas A&M University and a Masters in Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Originally from Houston, Texas and currently residing in Frisco, Texas, I fancy myself a secret physics, statistics, and data nerd. I'm also known today for being a part-time tennis strategy and coaching genius...by my kids...sometimes.

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      Houston - Van Allen

      Houston

      City Streets – Homeless Kids

      Van Allen

      Published by Screaming Weasel Productions

      Distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2018 Van Allen

      Houston

      City Streets – Homeless Kids

      Screaming Weasel Productions

      www.VanAllenFiction.com

      vanallenfiction@aol.com

      Copyright Van Allen 2018

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission of the author/publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      All characters in this book are based on the author’s childhood memories. Names have been changed. Essentially these are MY memories and may not completely match what others remember. This should be considered entirely as a work of fiction; however, I am calling it a story that is a part of my personal memoir.

      Cataloguing Information:

      Allen, Van

      Houston: City Streets – Homeless Kids

      BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

      FIC041000 FICTION / Biographical

      Houston

      City Streets – Homeless Kids

      Introduction

      This isn’t a story in the traditional fashion. I don’t have a real plot or a protagonist or antagonist. There really isn’t a hook, crisis, rise and fall, a backstory with deep character development, or a series of scenes and climaxes, or triggers and struggles. Well, okay. There may be some of those in here along the way. However, I’m really just sharing my thoughts and memories. I’m just going to tell it and leave it.

      This memoir is very light on things like proper grammar and sophisticated syntax. I apologize to those of you who are hampered by these restrictive devices and I ask that you forgive any uncaught typo or any comma drama. Also forgive my passive voice at times and my frequent use of adverbs. If you can’t ignore those things, then here is what I will tell you to do: Read this story again. And then if after a second reading you still can’t get past those issues, then you should read this whole story again. Now, the rest of you, thank you for reading this. I am deeply very interested to know what YOU think.

      2/23/2018 – A cold rainy Friday night in Dallas, Texas:

      I sat in my apartment thinking about the day I had. I had a great day – a mighty fine day. I felt fully energetic. I thought maybe I should go for a walk. My doctor keeps reminding me that I need to lose 25 pounds. Well, that’s another story. For some reason on a cold rainy night I decided to go for a walk, but I debated with myself for several minutes about this.

      Baby it’s cold outside. Dammit, it’s cold inside. It’s not raining right now, but what do you bet it will start raining again, soon? The weather will clear up this weekend. You can go for a walk then. Go to the gym and ride the elliptical machine where it’s warm and dry. It’s dangerous walking at night. You don’t live in a safe neighborhood. Anything could happen.

      Somehow, I found myself layering my clothes, strapping on my 380, plugging in my headphones, and on my way down the stairs out of my apartment. I even turned back around and went back inside to go get an umbrella, just in case. As I arrived at the gate to my complex, I launched the Jim Rome Show (www.jimrome.com)

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