I do not even know to whom I should address this letter, but here it is: Fix the fucking MTA before NYC takes to the streets and does something you will sorely regret. We are sick of 45 minute commutes taking 2 hours. We are sick of every single option to get home being “delayed…
Tag: creative writing
Baby Michelle Was Melodramatic
It’s Poetry Tuesday! We are going to go back through all my old notebooks and look at the god-awful poetry I wrote when I was an angsty teen and then you will get present day Michelle’s re-interpretation/headdesk horror-filled embarrassment. Trigger warning AGAIN: discussion of suicide Guardian If I close my eyes this will all go…
#4 – Only Child Syndrome
This is number four of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! Trigger Warning: Use of Only Child Syndrome for comedic purposes,…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 6/4/2006 Witty one liner: Your cellphone makes you twice as annoying Quote of the week: None Planner Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Planner Quote 2.0: “Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the…
Fan
He is fanning himself with one of those cheap Japanese fans. It has a black plastic frame and stiff black fabric with white flowers printed on it. He is fanning himself at a pace perhaps two notches below “furiously.” His face is illuminated by the iPad in his lap, small beads of perspiration shining underneath…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 5/28/2006 Witty one liner: I smile because I have no idea what’s going on Quote of the week: None Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): Starfish have multiple eyes, one at the end of each leg. This witty one liner is another one of my life philosophies. I smile and smile…
Observation Found in Ovid
Grey t-shirt, hands tucked into loose shorts, a backpack between his shins. He has strong legs. Tight calves, his weight balanced on the balls of his feet ready to spring. Dark close cut hair and impenetrable shades blocking his eyes from sight.
NYC Monday Morning
They have the shell-shocked, thousand-yard, dead-eyed stare of war survivors, but it’s really just NYC on a Monday morning. They stare vacantly at the opposite wall and he has his hand on her thigh. After a few minutes she regains some awareness and starts aimlessly looking around the train.
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 5/14/2006 Witty one liner: I’m not crazy, my reality is just different than yours. Quote of the week: “Don’t worry, if that question comes [up], I’ll just confuse them.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower Offbeat oddity (courtesy of the planner): It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery…
Chipper Giant
When he initially got on the train he stood next to me and even with my shoulders back, standing as tall as I could, the top of my head barely made it to the middle of is bicep. As soon as the seat behind us opened up he all but flung himself into it and…
Instruments of Survival
She brushes on her smile with her foundation. One hand holding her compact and mirror, the other working the smile deep into the contours of her face, cementing it in for the rest of the day. As the morning rushes by her outside the train she paints her eyes open and shades them from ill…
This Week Ten Years Ago
The Week of 4/30/2006 Witty one liner: Nobody is perfect, I am nobody. Therefore, I am perfect. Quote of the week: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Ghandi Planner Quote: “Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take…
Little Gentian 