<div>Help Dave Marshall recover from a serious accident and save his home of 17 years
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<div>At 12:15am on March 5th, I hit a deep unmarked pothole on Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore Square while working a courier shift for Insomnia Cookies. My instinct kicked in — feet down, Flintstones-style — and the impact fractured both of my tibial plateaus. An ambulance brought me to Mass General. X-rays confirmed the fractures weren't displaced enough for surgery, which was the good news. The bad: neither leg could bear weight, my apartment is up a flight of stairs, and I spent the next five weeks between a wheelchair and a walker at Medford Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
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<div>I was discharged April 10th. I'm walking again — carefully, with a walker — but I'm at least a month from returning to work. The pothole was deep enough that a friend's photo of it days later showed it stopping a car. That situation is being looked into legally. That's a long road. The rent clock doesn't wait.
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<div>I've lived in the same apartment since May 2008. I raised my kid there. Seventeen years in one place means something — it's not just an address, it's where I'm from. My landlord is a kind older woman who gave me more patience than most would. She deserves better than this situation, and so do I. I'm six months behind on rent. I'm facing eviction.
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<div>I've been in Boston since 1980. For most of that time I've earned my living as a comic book artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and web developer. Last year I lost my position at the State of Connecticut Digital Service to budget cuts. Finding full-time work since has been a wall — a job market hollowed out by ageism and AI, and I've come up empty. I exhausted unemployment. I took the courier job to keep going.
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<div>Fortunately, that part-time work qualified me for MassHealth, so the hospital bills aren't part of this. What is part of this is everything else that piled up while I was treading water before the accident — and the month-plus of lost income while I recover.
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<div>The accident didn't create this crisis. It made an already bad situation critical.
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<div>Here's the full picture:
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<div>Back rent (6 months × $2,000)  $12,000
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<div>Gas (past due)  $3,000
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<div>Electric (past due)  $1,650
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<div>Internet (past due)  $360
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<div>Family loans (estimated)  ~$3,000
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<div>Recovery living expenses  ~$1,000
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<div>Total  ~$21,010
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<div>Phase 1 goal is $10,000 — enough to address the eviction and the most urgent arrears while I get back on my feet. Phase 2 clears the rest. Every dollar goes directly to keeping me housed and solvent.
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<div>If you'd like something in return for your generosity, I'm offering commissions from my Inky Stories illustration work:
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<div>$75+  Signed digital print of existing work
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<div>$150+  Custom sketch commission
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<div>$300+  Full custom illustration
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<div>See examples and details at inkystories.com/commissions. Reach out after donating and we'll sort out the details.
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<div>I'm not asking to be rescued. I'm asking for a bridge back to the life I was building before everything came apart at once. If you can give, thank you. If you can't, sharing this costs nothing and means more than you might think.
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<div>— Dave
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