It’s pouring rain, not sure where to go now. I came earlier to Stewart’s, but it was mobbed. This goes on where ever I go. It is busy at times, but mobbing me has become a regular thing here now. I was recently assaulted and threatened at McDonalds, my food tainted at Dunkin Donuts, and…
Hands Up!
It’s hard to keep your sanity on the street and I know my streets are bad now, but there are streets even more horrible. America does have some things left, but as I look around it wouldn’t take long for a tank to cruise downtown. They always say it can never happen here. My nails…
Arrested And Homeless Again
Sitting in the Police Department after being arrested again, I lost count how many times it has been, my things just dumped in a couple bags, so many things weren’t included; important documents I had downstairs in the kitchen along with so many other things cops didn’t include—my boots! all the other things that I…
Betrayal
original Art collage drawing—Rhonda Flanagan It’s been difficult lately to process all the betrayal. I wander around the Abandoned house trying to have hope; cleaning, salvaging what I can, trying to make it warm for the coming Winter—it’s amazing what a few blue tarps can do! I keep trying to acquire more survival skills as…
Abandoned
Hydrangeas from abandoned house. For whatever reason, God has lead me to this Abandoned House where for the first time in 10yrs it feels like home—I fell in love, but it’s like being given something that is not what you thought or expected. I never thought I would love another house after I was violently…
Fight Club
It’s been like a scene out of the movie, “Fight Club,” the one where Tyler Durden keeps telling Jack to hit him. “I want you to hit me as hard as you can!” How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? The harassment has been constant lately as people keep…
Disappeared
After being once again told to leave another abandoned building, the old RiteAid store, I headed back down to the abandoned porch passing an old abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken place. I figured the Sheriffs and State Police were called by my childhood old friend that I now knew had been stalking me since we were…
Social Services As A Girl And Now
The refrain to viciously “go to Social Services” had been constant since this all started. I had thought in the beginning it was just the regular response cops made when going initially on a call. I was finding out this was not what they were doing at all. Social Services was seen as derogatory sarcasm…
Sleeping In Walmart Parking Lot
I made it up to the Walmart after fleeing from the abandoned porch that had been my home for the past 3 months, I was already missing the Pigeons I had befriended, and getting another routine going was making me feel drained already. It takes a while to set things up, simple things like where…
Fleeing Abandoned Porch
The tension had been building for a while from various men around the area that would stop by and talk to me each giving me $20 I had thought because I was homeless, but learned the “$20” was for sex. It was just the continuation of more violent games to make me look like a…
Rhonda J Flanagan 