The ruby slippers

By Keir Alexander

Subjects: Accidents, Fiction, general, Fiction, Homeless women, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Old Rose, the bag lady, shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Mr Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help - but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed inside her hulk.