Review: Homeless Phoenix
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
This short story chronicles the life of Cleo, a teenager abandoned by her mother and forced by necessity to forage for food in a nearby city. The details of her hard-scrabble existence are written in a terse, but beautiful way by  Ms. Klass. Some descriptions are so vivid it makes you wonder if this story came from the author's own experiences.The story begins to amp up the action when Cleo takes up with a trio of runaways - Einstein, Star, and Peewee. They do everything they can to survive in the back-alleys of  civilazation -- stealing, scavaging, sharing tender moments that bond the quartet together even more.I won't delve into what happens to them but, take a chance a read a story that will resound in your mind for years and stoke the fires of your own humanity. Cleo's tale will pull at your emotions and rip your heartstrings. Five Stars.