Image Credit: Charlie Chaplin. Modern Times (1936). I was running on the promenade that lines Brooklyn along the bay of the New York harbor, which stretches from Gravesend to Bay…
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The summer I turned fourteen, my best friend Katie was in love with the chiseled lifeguard who presided over her community pool from his chair high up in the heavens.…
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I’m tired of making meaning. Every bus sashays by like it wishes it was the one I want, but none of them is. Through the chain link fence behind the…
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1. “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush Inspired by the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Bad dreams in the night. They told me I was going to lose the fight,…
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was going to the bathroom when my mother knocked on the door and told me to come out quick. I nervously wiped…