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There is Something

by Darryl Price, posted 4 days ago 6161 views11 comment11 fav

I want to say so you'll hear it, butnothing comes close to that feeling. It'sthere in your eyes, your voice, your hair. Howmuch more can I avoid saying those perfect words that will make it all the way inside you? There is something likea blind love going on here…

the sensual tactility of tall buildings

by eamon byrne, posted 5 days ago 6060 views66 comments22 favs

There's a nice line in M. Tafuri's essay “Architecture and Cities in the United States 1870-1910” concerning the relationship between land values and building costs:“… whereas the simple parceling-up of surface lots is the product of an elementary…

Barred caller

by David Ackley, posted 6 days ago 5757 views33 comments11 fav

overheard

The Roses

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted Oct 27, 2025 102102 views44 comments33 favs

Does it ever happen to you to wish to talk to somebody? Just somebody. Anyone. A stranger you might meet. Just to talk. About anything, even of the rain. Of the sore you have on your foot, of the daffodil in bloom, of everything and nothing. This lady sat at my…

Mrs. Penfield

by Carl Santoro, posted Oct 13, 2025 330330 views22 comments22 favs

Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted Oct 10, 2025 156156 views00 comments00 favs

Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

Punchlines of a cosmic joke

by strannikov, posted Sep 26, 2025 714714 views22 comments00 favs

Creating a world in which no one believes . . . killing a world in which no one could believe.

The Big LARP

by stephen hastings-king, posted Sep 18, 2025 930930 views44 comments22 favs

The ambient sound wheezes on.

use

by Valerie Henderson, posted Aug 26, 2025 22522252 views66 comments44 favs

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The Circle of Life

by Aline Carriere, posted Aug 26, 2025 23402340 views11 comment22 favs

Maybe you could buy a Volunteer,” Carol suggested. Ma huffed. “You know we don't have the money for that. And besides I never liked the idea of Volunteers — taking advantage of the poor like that.”

Circularity (story fragment)

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Aug 22, 2025 22632263 views00 comments00 favs

Ian Markham stood before the massive triangular window of Circularity's pyramidal office building. Its Technicolor hologram, a coup in advertising sloganeering, urgently flashed the company's ubiquitous tagline—IT'S NOT JUST AN ADVENTURE. IT'S A SECOND CHANCE! …

Blind-Sided, PT 1.

by Michael D. Brown, posted Aug 03, 2025 28792879 views00 comments00 favs

BLIND-SIDED 1 The humid night air clung to Julio's skin as he and Marco stepped off the bus near campus, laughter trailing behind them like the smell of esquites from the street vendor across the road. The political rally had been noisy and full of energy - and…

to You

by Jeffery Klaehn, posted Aug 03, 2025 28142814 views33 comments22 favs

A glance—I dissolved completely.

O Fortuna

by Michael Parker, posted Jul 30, 2025 28592859 views1111 comments66 favs

This poem begins my poetry collection. It is about the pain and suffering I experienced when I had an attack of two pulmonary embolisms, one in the right lung, one in the left. This nearly killed me. I lived with the pain in my lungs whenever I took a bre

Brian Epstein's Letter to His Mother

by Amanda Harris, posted Jul 23, 2025 29692969 views1010 comments55 favs

All that loves green produces green.

At the Crossroads Bar

by Joani Reese, posted Jul 22, 2025 30623062 views66 comments55 favs

An eye patch waits aslant his passenger seat.

Because

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Jul 06, 2025 29002900 views88 comments77 favs

Because I'm old and this is the Way I Do Things now...



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  2. I like NY, Eamon, but I'll take Paris where there's a height limit on buildings in the inner city, save for one egregious disaster, hastily redressed, and from anywhere you can see most of the sky,...
  3. Also I should add that I love the long articles in TNY.
  4. Yes, I do think it's pretty easy reading now. I read some 50 year old Atlantic articles recently and I was surprised at the level of difficulty. I should read some old New Yorkers (or new Atlantics...
  5. Thanks Dianne, very kind of you. I'll definitely read more of your work. TNY - do you mean the new yorker? Hey David. Thanks mate. Buildings - if I was in NY I'd be quite happy to get a crick in m...
  6. Yes, all that Dianne said. And too, why this fixation with height and that buildings be "taller than," others, as if sheer bigness, is and always has been a competition to be won by the powerful ov...
  7. Great read, Dianne. Thanks so much. Once in a very great while we seem to hear something through the species barrier, or see in a creature's eyes, that we in some way know one another, or wish to. ...
  8. Interesting. Enjoyable. Challenging. These days I am so used to reading writing written on a primary school level, but not here. Thank you. (And yes, I do subscribe to TNY.) Admire the voice...
  9. Great title!
  10. Perfect. One night last summer we had a barred owl in a tree next to our bedroom window. It seemed like it was talking to us. Once a few years ago I remember walking into an empty room and fe...

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