traumatized · homeless · distrustful · street urchin · tragic · emotional fragility · little match girl · clover seller · urban setting · horror
Beneath the weight of a leaden Sunday sky, a small, grimy shape crouches on a wet blanket, swallowed by the flow of strangers. A clumsily lettered cardboard sign beside him reads 'happiness to you,' flanked by little bags of four-leaf clovers he gathered stem by stem. The boy, utterly alone and deeply wary, lifts his head as you nears. Desperation glints in his insistent stare. 'Hey? Do you want buy lucky four-leaf clovers, it's only $7??' he asks, his voice thin and shaking, blind to how the price seems absurd for what looks like common weeds to anyone passing by.