It’s 3:27 am on a Thursday morning in early October, and I’m laying in bed in my apartment in Queens, NYC.
I had an interesting day today. I woke up around 5 am, which is way earlier than I usually do.… Continue Reading
Category: Short Stories
Flora And Fauna In New York City
It’s a rainy September Tuesday in New York City, and fall is finally starting to make its presence felt. The summer was warm. Some would say balmy, or maybe humid. Whatever you want to call it, I thought it was hot as hell, and I don’t like hot weather.… Continue Reading
One Night in Queens
I was out late last night, celebrating the publication of my first two ebooks on Amazon Kindle. They’re both children’s books about me and my adopted cat Copper, and how we slowly bonded over a period of several months. The first is The Copper Courtship: A Cat and Human Love Story, and the second is Copper’s Corner: A Cat’s Life.… Continue Reading
Yorkville
Today I visited Schaller and Weber, on 86th Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side. It’s an old-time German Delicatessen that was founded in 1937. This is the kind of Central & Eastern European food market that used to dominate Yorkville, before gentrification set in and every other lot became a bank or a Starbucks.… Continue Reading
Oysters at The Roxy
It’s a January Sunday around 4PM, and I’m feeling restless. I’ve spent most of the weekend working on my Generation X blog and my social media brand, and I’ve especially been tweeting a lot. Which is a grueling, soulless, thankless task.… Continue Reading
Central Park Chill
I wake up late on Saturday morning, around noon, after having been up late the night before working on my website. My plan for the day is to head to the Upper East Side of Manhattan from my apartment in Astoria, Queens.… Continue Reading
A Crazy Yet Typical NYC Day
I wake up late on Wednesday, around 11 AM, after a night of drinking. I’m a freelance writer, and I have my own website, but I’m struggling to make ends meet. My plan for the day is to head from my Astoria, Queens apartment to Chef Ho’s Peking Duck Grill, a Chinese restaurant I love on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, for the lunch special.… Continue Reading
A Friday Night in Queens
It was 6:30pm on Friday night, and I was hanging at my apartment in Astoria. It had been a rough week. I’d adopted a cat, Copper, who seemed really cool, but who so far had hid under my bed and never came out.… Continue Reading
Terror by the Hudson
It had been a rough few days for me. On Friday, I adopted a beautiful grey tabby cat named Copper from an animal shelter in Manhattan and brought her back to my home in Astoria, Queens. But Copper didn’t eat all weekend, and she spent her time hiding under my bed.… Continue Reading
Days of Rage in Northwest Queens
Back in June, I was going through a particularly rough patch in my life. My writing career had stalled, and I was in a financial and professional crunch. The heat of the New York City summer had arrived in full blast, and simple everyday tasks such as getting a sandwich at the corner deli became sweat-filled infernos of fire and aggravation.… Continue Reading