‘Tis The Season / by Akira Ohiso

On the bus, a woman wearing a UW hoodie laughs to herself. Passengers avoid eye contact. A car blares its horn. She says, “So much for Sunday driving.” It’s Monday.

We bring Amazon deliveries we did not order to a return site at Whole Foods. We tell them it's a brushing scam. An Amazon staff says, “It’s that time of the year.”

At 8 am, an unhoused man runs from an alley with a blanket around him. He is startled and yells, “That big bitch scared the life out of me.”