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The Chicken Coops

The Chicken Coops was what locals in Sag Harbor, a village in The Hamptons, called a semi-rundown apartment building located at 58 Howard Street. I grew up in The Chicken Coops. We were the families too poor to afford a house. We were the families living pay check to pay check. We were the families with the run down cars in the dirt parking lot. We were the families with the backed up cesspool in our front yard that made the entire block stink for days. We were the families of three, four, five people living in two bedroom apartments that cost $300 a month and we could barely pay it. We were the families of The Hamptons you don’t read about, don’t know about, don’t believe can exist in a place usually attached to Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, Madonna, Supermodels, Real Housewives and Wall Street CFO’s. These misconceptions are the driving force behind everything I write. I am currently finishing my MFA in Creative Writing. This page contains parts of my thesis and stories that have nothing, but everything, to do with it. I blog random things here. This work by Kristen Fiore is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. You may not republish or reuse for commercial purposes without special permission.

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