Welfare

Welfare is wholly made up of four-line paragraphs and has a cadence that is uniquely its own. A high school student leaves his parents' home to live on his own with friends and with the help of government aid. The narrator becomes your best friend on the first page.

I walk down the slight slope of their driveway. A backpack full of t-shirts and socks and underwear and books on my back. I have $50 and 2 packs of cigarettes in the pocket of my army surplus jacket. But no lighter. You can't have everything I tell myself.

Steve Anwyll lives in Canada.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tyrant Books
Published: 01/08/2019
ISBN: 9780999218662
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 12/10/2018