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Anthony and Lydia – Chapter 1 – Lydia, Groucho, Anthony and a Dog Named Ike
Lydia bought herself a chocolate frosted Entenmann’s cake for herself the night before she would be celebrating her 70th birthday. She didn’t expect anyone to remember her birthday aside from her children. They would reach out to her with the obligatory indifferent phone calls, force their children to get on the phone and mimic what…
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Forever in Ashes
As we honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 27 we honor not only what was lost but what was never created. The smoke rises from the earth and the cries echo towards the heavens as the ashes dissipate into the ground. Ghosts of infants uncarried, unheld and left out to cry alone.…
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The Uninvited and the Expelled – Chapter 2
As I boarded the plane from Kennedy Airport I was attended to by a very pretty flight attendant named Molly. She had short curly dark brown hair, big brown eyes and full lips. When she smiled two dimples were revealed on each side of her mouth and she smiled often. She accompanied me as I…
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The Uninvited and the Expelled – Chapter 1
I walk with a limp. I have walked this way my whole life because of a birth defect. One leg is longer than the other leg. Specifically my left leg is four inches longer than my right. I was born with this “wonderful gift” so I have never known any other way to walk. When…
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The Diner – Chapter 8
Brenda and Daisy spoke at length about what they would be doing that afternoon as they picked at breakfast and drank their coffee. The diner was full that morning but they were able to secure two spots in a booth right by a window and a small jukebox. “Strange Daisy…I am sorry I lost all…
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The Diner – Chapter 7
Brenda walked up the stairs and tried to keep quiet. She could hear her Aunt and Uncle giggling in the other room and she was kind of grossed out. Although there was something kind of romantic about their relationship. So many years and they still played cat and mouse. She opened the door to her…
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The Diner – Chapter 6
Eddie woke up on 34th Street and jumped. He stood and walked out the parting doors and found his way upstairs through the ramps, the beggars, soloists, dancing bands with Michael Jackson as a backdrop and a barbershop quartet. A young girl danced next to her mother who was sitting and breast feeding…
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The Diner – Chapter 5
2006 Brenda and Eddie The diner opened up in 1956. Alexander Drakos was a 25 year old son of Greek farmers who had been serving food at their home for their whole life. Alexander decided he wanted to move to New York when he was 15 years old. At the age of 19 he took…
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The Diner – Chapter 4
There were sneakers tied together and hanging on a wire that crossed the street above her. The echoes of sirens, a dog barking and airplanes flying overhead filled the cavernous streets. On each side of the road there were homes connected and crowded together as if to fit as many as possible on the small…
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The Diner – Chapter 3
As Brenda walked alone towards the restroom she recognized several faces, they seemed to have aged a lot. When she washed her hands and caught a glimpse of her image in the mirror above the sink. She half-expected to see herself at the age of 17 or so – when she saw her 43 year…
