Caroline set her canvas handbag on the corner of the workbench.

Her worn leather suitcase sat on the floorboards beside the narrow iron cot.

She knelt on the bare floor, lined up the brass corner plates of the case, and pushed the broad leather top flap down, latching her worn leather suitcase in the cold studio flat.

Caroline sat on the edge of the vinyl examination table at the Cranston health clinic, holding her coat across her lap while the overhead fluorescent lights hummed.

Cold November rain brushed against the narrow frosted window above the sink.