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War
by Kenneth P. Nolan 12/25/2009Neighborhood: Brooklyn, Windsor Terrace
The only time my father talked about the War was when he was dying and Bud Pope came to visit in the hospital. “Remember the time I nearly killed the cook,” my father said somewhat weakly, “he wouldn’t give me enough food. And the Captain came over, Jack, Jack put down the gun, the only […]
The Case of the Slacker Private Eyes
by Granger Greenbaum 12/25/2009Neighborhood: Midtown
By the third day of working on the case with Ray we were comfortable enough around each other to drop our professional facades and start slacking off a little. At first neither one of us knew how career-minded the other guy was so we kept using industry terminology relevant to the case. It was really […]
A Hard Lesson Upside the Head
by Todd Cobb 12/25/2009Neighborhood: Carroll Gardens
She was never really my girlfriend. She was my occasional hook-up, I guess, my sometimes companion. Nothing more than that. A girl, true enough, but I don’t think she was ever really any kind of friend. This story isn’t about her, anyway. I was a month-old New York newborn, a 39 year-old infant who could […]