Tenement Dust

by booklover611

Patrick Magee seems like your your basic Newsie. For the last two years he's been hustling papers in Manhattan (and trying to raise his sixteen year old sister) after running away from an abusive drunk step father and a mother who chose a man over her own children. Follow Patrick as he falls in love with a plain faced Italian immigrant girl and runs into the demons of his past.R&R!

2. Chapter 2

September 2 1901

It was funny how a persons past could somehow creep into their future. How you could fight and fight to forget but somehow it always caught up with you. It had been three years since he had left home, leaving the life of a drunken escuse for father and the so called mother who claimed to love him. He had tried to start a new, selling papes on any street corner of Manhattan, working himself to the bone for a few lousy pennies. But he could only run for so long and now three days to the date of his departure it had all caught up to him. He only wished that he hadn't dragged her down with him.