Angel The man paused on the doorstep, huffed into his palm to check his breath, and then shook his jacket straight. Ignoring the bell to the side, he gave a stout knock. A girl opened the door. “Hello?” She had a wide, serious face and the kind of long… Sep 19 16September 19, 2016Article at Cleaver Magazine
Riding SidecarSince moving to San Francisco, I have become a loyal Über fan. Über is a car service based on a smartphone application. You download the app on your iPhone and create an account with your credit card number and personal information. Nov 13 13November 13, 2013PDF at December Magazine
The Technology of Literary FictionI have written short stories for most of my life but only recently decided to see if I could publish some of my words. I had moved to San Francisco and everyone I met told me that I had to get my brand out there. I couldn’t just wait to be… Article at The Lowenstoft Chronicle
In Bogota | Jay DuretJoan Didion once published an essay called “In Bogota” and years later, in a hotel in Italy, I came upon it and discovered that she had written about Bogota when I was living there. In fact, the hovel of a residencia where I holed up was only a few… Article at Outside In
Bicentennial Jay DuretShortly before the nation’s bicentennial, a wave of graffiti washed over Philadelphia. Before long it came to the attention of A. Edward Jaffe. In those days Jaffe was still the features editor of the Bulletin. He was a skinny man of fifty with bad,… Article at Blue Lake Review
Center City, PhiladelphiaWe were fifteen years old that summer and had outgrown the suburban town where we lived. Everything my friends and I yearned for we found in the seedy downtown core of Philadelphia’s Center City, which was as exotic to us as Baghdad. In Center City… Article at Narrative Magazine
