Short stories, vignettes

I have always been curious about seedy places, and the people who inhabit them. It's something I like in Steinbeck and in Malamud and Tom Waits.

I'm going to write some pieces inspired by the bus station and put them on here. Some will be very short, barely a paragraph, more like vignettes.

Bus station

This place is full of Steinbeckian characters. It's a brutalist building, very generously proportioned, but it manages to sustain the seediness that seems everywhere to characterise bus stations.