(Clinton) She felt his eyes on her just about the time the bartender placed a Beck’s coaster on the bar and set her dry Rob Roy on top of it. She wanted to turn and see who was eyeing her, but remained as she was, trying to analyze just what it was she felt. She […]
(San Marino) They caught up with Russell Chen as he drove home from work, running his Lexus off the frontage road by the gravel pits of Irwindale. There were four of them, wearing reflective sunglasses and trucker caps pulled low, and for one terrified moment Chen though they meant to jack the car, kill him, […]
(King’s Cross) Dougie arrived at the concourse opposite the station just half an hour after it had all gone off. He’d had the cab driver drop him down the end of Gray’s Inn Road, outside a pub on the corner there, where he’d made a quick dive into the gents to remove the red hood […]
ART: skill; human skill or workmanship. Then you got a whole page of crap on: Art Form Nouveau Paper —ful Like I’ve got the interest. Jesus. I was in the bookshop, killing time, saw the manager give me the look. That’s why I picked up a book, a goddamn dictionary, weighing like a ton, opened […]
(Benning Heights, SE) This shit has gone way too far. That’s what the little voice in your head tells you. The black hoodie concealing your face is too warm for mid-April, and is thus putting your Right Guard to the test. However, it will keep you above description. And in this case, it’s all that […]
(Park Slope) Carmody came up from the subway before dusk, and his eyeglasses fogged in the sudden cold. He lifted them off his nose, holding them while they cooled, and saw his own face smiling from a pale green leaflet taped to the wall. There he was, in a six-year-old photograph, and the words Reading […]
Tim McLoughlin, a Brooklyn writer and editor, stopped off at a local bar after a Brooklyn Cyclones game. Along with the beer, the bartender, Thomas Morrissey, thrust his unpublished short story, “Can’t Catch Me,” into his hands. Mr. McLoughlin loved the piece, about a detective who investigates the murder of a Bay Ridge baker who […]