• Celebrating the American Revolution

  by Debbie Nathan 07/04/2010

  Young white man with large backpack, heavy French accent, and reasonably capable English: Excuse me, is there a local Number 2 train? It comes on this track?
  Middle-aged white New York woman with long, dangling earrings: No.
  This is the Number 1 track. Number 2 trains, they’re all express. Over on that track. A Number 2 [...]

• The Company Shit Burner

  by John Samuel Tieman 07/04/2010

  Last week, I’m taking a shit and get this recovered memory. It’s like a life lesson: repetition is the soul of disaster.
  Because pilots make frequent landings, a special warning light is installed in many cockpits, this to remind pilots to lower the landing gear. Everyone makes mistakes that are the product of repetitive activity. Like [...]

• Ride the Lightning

  by Edward Mullany 07/04/2010

  Outside the shop where we’d just bought ice cream, my wife and I were sitting on a bench against the window, my wife with a cone and myself with a small cup. It was sunny. We’d just come over from Riverside Park, where we’d been leisurely biking, and where people were already starting to gather [...]

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