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Waiting to be Deciphered

From Astoria & Queens about Redeeming the Inanimate
Published on: 04/20/2006

Recent Stories
- A Sidekick for St. Patrick’s Day
  by Brian Quinn 03/17/2010
  Walking the streets on St. Patrick’s Day in New York City is akin to walking into an insane asylum in which all the inmates have been starved for days, denied all their medications, punched about the head a few times, then painted green and released from their cells. Also, someone has pissed in all the [...]
- Trolling Whores for Coke: How to Get Started
  by Brent Shearer 03/17/2010
  So you’ve got the wife and the kids. You’ve got and are just barely hanging onto, the co-op in the chic enclave, you’re so middle-aged. Some men, finding themselves adrift in a wood in their middle years, go to the gym: I troll whores for coke.
  After you’ve seen the horrors of Chelsea Pier’s ice rink [...]
- Wonderland
  by Nicole Ferraro 03/08/2010
  In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, 19-year-old Alice – played by Mia Wasikowska – returns to Wonderland, 10 years after her last visit there, to rescue it from the Red Queen. At 26, two decades since my last trip to the rabbit hole, I can only say I envy her.
  I was six years old in [...]
Recent Comments
- Wonderland (1)
  - Jon Abrams: Beautiful story – perhaps Tim Burton can be persuaded to visit the hole in Queens and conjure...
- Runaways (1)
  - Angelico Valdez: Lovely story. The troubles of motherhood is something that only those who truely love their child...
- Brookti & Me: A Story of Adoption (1)
  - tim schreier: I read this story and was insulted. This narcissism at it’s worst, when a child is used as a...
- Sitting Behind Cybill Shepherd (1)
  - Bonnie Downing: I was so charmed by this story. And I just linked to you; I know my readers will appreciate it as...
- From Kobe, Japan to New York City (and Back Again) (1)
  - David Harlow: A beautiful story. Really is.
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