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Posted on November 7, 2016November 7, 2016

Behind a Window: Summers at Mom-Mom’s

nowme takes the pics & i write the words* Ellie looked up from her phone when Mom exited the George Washington Bridge. Maryland and fifth grade a distant memory. Mom-Mom’s apartment was in the Bronx. She liked this part: ridin’ in the heart of the city, music blaring from bodegas, people covering the block. Mom-Mom’s building …

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Posted on October 30, 2016

Behind a Window: Stairway to Heaven

nowme takes the pics; i write the stories* Sunday drives are tradition in the Hernandez household. “Audrey, Eddie, Luis! Vamos!” I grab my favorite book, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and dart out the door. Mom tugs a pigtail and giggles as I run past. When we pull off, I look up at our …

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Posted on October 23, 2016October 23, 2016

Behind a Window: Freedom Soon Come

nowme takes the pics & i write the stories Tonight would be the harvest moon, freedom soon come. Simone would climb the narrow flight of stairs to her roof for access to a wide swath of uninterrupted Brooklyn sky. That was the only way to be sure it was time. A week ago, on an abandoned …

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Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016

Behind a Window: It’s Just a Game

Photo by nowme. She posts the pics (NYC windows) and I write the stories (female lead, 100 words or less). Tonya didn’t have a choice the first time Royce kissed her. She was sitting by his girlfriend Monique—everyone called her Nique—in the midst of a game of Spin the Bottle. The empty bottle pointed to her. …

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Posted on September 27, 2016

Behind a Window: The Golden Light

My homegirl nowme has been working on a 365 day photo challenge. Her muse has been NYC windows. She suggested we collaborate: she posts the pics and I write the stories. My rules for the micro stories: female lead, 100 words or less She flung open the black iron shutters. “It’s real,” she said, kneeling on the windowsill. …

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Posted on September 25, 2016October 27, 2016

Behind a Window: NYC Windows & Micro Stories

My homegirl Naomi aka nowme has been working on a 365 day photo challenge. Her muse has been NYC windows. Every day she posts a new image of a window on Instagram. Two weeks ago she posted this picture of a baroque-looking building with a window that seemed to capture the sky. It was stunning and I told …

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