by aaron | Nov 21, 2011 | Essays
Exactly one year ago today, with the weather here in Seattle as cold and threatening as it is again now, my neighbor Joe was murdered up the street from the alley that runs behind our homes. Joe was killed by a man named Michael, a homeless schizophrenic off his...
by aaron | Dec 21, 2010 | blog, not-fiction
One month ago my neighbor Joe was murdered fifty feet up the street from my apartment. Joe lived two houses away. He was 58-years old. Joe liked to smoke cigarettes as he leaned against the fence in the back alley. He had two dogs, Rusty and Jake. Joe had a...