anthologies

History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights)

There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)

He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.