Ode
by Arthur O'ShaughnessyWe are the music-makers ( Read more... )

Grand Finale 2010-11 from McLean Fahnestock.
I had plans to fly down to Florida to see the very last space-shuttle launch, the one in the bottom right corner, and meet with my best friend from the internet, someone I had never met in spite of a decade of regular correspondence. We were going to watch the ship launch, then road-trip across the ( Read more... )

There is an awful, delightful old tradition that women have "permission" to ask men for their hand in marriage on Leap Day, with the added impetus that if he refuses, he must give her the gift of a silk dress and a kiss to soften the blow. So, with the best of intentions, I asked one of my dearest friends to marry me today. (He is pretty great.) ( Read more... )

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"Zilla March", a bone-breaking group in the Brooklyn subways

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I didn't think I'd ever return to New York, but now that I'm here, I am glad.

Each Sound
by Dorianne LauxBeginnings are brutal, like this accident ( Read more... )

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Love is Like Life but Longer from Poppy de Villeneuve.
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From Portuguese - Saudade. According to Wikipedia:
"...a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return."
Photographs of you make my ( Read more... )