• September 14, 2024

    On a Saturday, an old familiar feeling. You’ve been spending time in the soup again, being softened and cooked, and you haven’t even realized it. Too much soup in the belly—or on the belly—made you sleepy.  Switch to coffee, if you’re really stuck on (or in!) a liquid, because it’s time to wake up. Things…

  • #100

    On the equinox, the day and the night are of equal length. A perfect balance of what came before and what’s to come. Two hundred and eighty two days before, when the nights were much longer than the days, she had the idea that she was ready. Everything she had read in preparation said the…

  • #99

    Three homes in one day. The old. The for now. The new. The few things that were almost left behind: an umbrella that belonged to her old boss; the too small broom she bought and loved despite its useless size; the souvenir magnet from the village in Italy where she had climbed inside of a…

  • #98

    Pushing her body forward through the turnstile, she realized that for a dozen years she had always taken their F train home to Brooklyn from Manhattan. Tonight would be the last time on this line. F for forever. F for falsehoods. F for familiar. F for finished. Before she could get too sentimental, she ran…

  • #97

    Milky rivulets cut across the subway floor. Someone had dropped an ice cream cone several stops before she had to get on. The longer she sat waiting to get home, the longer the chains of melted sweetness grew around her. If she let her feet go without thinking, it could turn into a disaster later.…

  • #96

    Men slept on either side of her. It wasn’t late. The sun was still reddening the sky. The moon only an outline. The train was full of raucous voices and flailing limbs and thumping bags. But they slept, slumped at their necks, hand over hand in their laps, taking on the sways of the car…

  • #95

    Before she even opened her eyes, the juggling act of the day had begun. She had proudly filled up her moka pot with espresso grounds the night before, then realized she had overslept and would have to cut the morning coffee out in order to make it to work on time. Walking from the train…