"Blue slept on Carrotgirl's couch until the cat began to lose fur. Then for a week she slept in the jam space of the old wooden band house. After a few lucrative drug deals and stolen appliances easily pawned, she and Hannah moved into the top of a red shingled house occupied by two punk bands and a graffiti artist who'd painted a mural all the way up the front walk. The house was owned by a whore who had become too old to be a hooker and decided to run a flophouse instead..."