vignette challenge

This week's prompt is:
homeless

Anyone can join, with a 50-word vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

My efforts:
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vistas and borderlands

If you want the characters to be always discovering new monsters, new magics, new perils -- if they live in a world of chaos and adventure, and not an over-arching battle but an endless one --

You have to suggest possibilities.
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Zen Stories: The Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones

Zen Stories: The Staff and Shout of the Venerable Ones by Tsai Chih Chung

A series of vignettes on Zen. A lot about the unity of all things, the need for intuition, tales of kindness to robbers, acceptance of the everyday, the auspicious nature of "Father dies.  Sons die.  Grandsons die."  and more.

not quite NaNoWriMo progress

2000 words today, up to 22,300.

Also, the definitive knowledge that I can't type up 50,000 words of this, because it's not 50,000 words long; I'm more than halfway through.