Category: persons of interest

  • The Girl with the Bit Part

    What makes her look back? She walks with an open face because she likes when they see. She keeps her hair swept back and keeps a slower pace. Slow, but still purposeful. Her nose stands upturned (from genetics, not from the recent success of the television show on which she has a bit part). It’s…

  • A Ride to the Ballgame

    “Do you know what I’ve come to realize?” The girl spoke like a woman with years of experience and not a college freshman. She was posing the question to her mother, whose baseball cap and blonde ponytail matched her own. “Riding the subway is just like taking an elevator, but horizontally.” The mother smiled. She…

  • Once Fresh and in Season

    He was agitated. You could tell by the way he rubbed his hands together. Kneading one over the other as if he were trying to clean them under a faucet. But they remained soiled, dirt under the nails, darkened around the knuckles. His knees bounced up and down on the seat, nervous dancers framing a…

  • The Bravest

    No matter how big of a cynic you may be, you can’t tell me you don’t feel something when you see a firefighter in his dress uniform. The emotional pull brought on by how shiny his shoes are, how deep the creases in his pants reach, how straight his medals lay pinned to his breast.…

  • A fun game

    A fun game to play at a bar full of older gentlemen is “The last time I got a tetanus shot…”

  • Facetiming

    This couple looked so carefree. They were stopped in traffic and the lady in the passenger seat held up her phone so the guy in the driver’s seat could make faces at the person on the other end. They were doing this thing called FaceTime. They waved their hands and stuck out their tongues and…

  • July 11, Mr. Wei 

    Mr. Wei stood near the entrance of the downtown subway. Despite the uncomfortable humidity, he decided it was best to button his white collared shirt all the way to the top. He shuffled a newspaper in his hand, but reading seemed impossible since he could not keep his eyes on the words. Instead, he glanced…