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Monkey In The Middle
by Ahron Yeshaiek 02/28/2011Neighborhood: All Over, Featured, Rockaway, The Catskills
“You from Long Island?” Danny, from Brownsville, Brooklyn, grilled. Before I could qualify myself, he turned to face the rest of the kids on our bus, and announced, “The skinny kid is loaded.” We had just left Chinatown and were cruising north, along the Hudson River, to sleep-away camp in upstate New York. My fellow [...]
Natural Selection
by Bram Gunther 12/30/2002Neighborhood: The Catskills
It’s dawn and I’m fighting with a bobcat. For a raccoon, I’m doing pretty well. The sun is burning through the misty clouds, slowly warming up the forest – the forest, my home, that I love so well. Small birds sing loudly from the branches of trees, their lungs filled with sweet yearning. Crows, who [...]
