“Cut from the Team” (from New York Minute Magazine)

It was a steamy summer early morning right after the bars had closed. A disheveled thin man, stylishly unshaven and wearing a concert t-shirt, closed the door of his car and approached the window. A sense of dejection hung to his persona and seemed to draw the cigarette smoke he was exhaling from his mouth […]

“The Vaccination” (from New York Minute Magazine)

It was time for my vaccination. I stood in a long line, hushed by the unique elixir of mid-week exhaustion and fluorescent school house lights for my annual flu-shot. I nervously stretched my shirtsleeve up as far as it would go anticipating the needle. Something about the line, the inoculation and my mood reminded me […]