Heavy

When the 3 train is not running, the 4 train goes on the 3 train track, and stops at the 3 train stops. You might think it was the 3 train, but there is that number 4 and it is in a green circle instead of a red one. It is a 4 train […]

Duos

1. I was innocently waiting for my smoothie. There was another girl with a black beret, and she had a wedding ring, meaning someone loved her, whereas no one loves me, or ever has, or ever will, except for the people who have, you know. 2. Getting off the subway twenty minutes later, a woman […]

Cold Feet

My socks were wet by 2 pm, and somehow my sleeve was wet by 4, a rivulet must have rushed up there, maybe from my umbrella being held together by a rubber band where it was held together. It had rained and rained and rained and rained, the puddles in every gutter were gullies and the […]

Speak Tenderly

This week: the social worker was trying to talk to this woman with her eye swollen out of her head, the woman was thrusting her cell phone at this very young social worker demanding she talk to her dad. The hospital security guards talked about what to have for dinner. A college girl from Columbia […]