Mr Beller’s Neighborhood is looking for non-fiction stories set in New York. A story should be reasonably short, vivid, specific, and true. It can recall a person or a place, or it can recall a experience that moved you. We’re interested in the distant past as much as the present. A story should be true to the facts. We don’t publish everything we get, but we publish some of it, and we want to hear from you.
Recent Stories
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Wonderland
by Nicole Ferraro 03/08/2010In 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 [...] -
City Habitats
by Thaddeus Rutkowski 03/08/2010My partner and I found an apartment with one bedroom—one more bedroom than either of us had in our old places. The new residence did not, however, have a bathtub. The bathroom—an extension of a hallway that also served as the kitchen—was too small for a tub. The space left for a tub measured about [...]
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Mrs. Graham, the White Ghost
by Carl Schinasi 03/08/2010As a teenager, I lived with my dysfunctional family in a modest but comfortable apartment in Beechurst, Queens. One Saturday morning, too fried to suffer any longer the slings and arrows of my sorry-assed teenage life, I decided to run away from home.
I told my mother I was going into Manhattan to spend the day [...]
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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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