was what the the cashier said as we entered the automatic sliding door, my hand in his pocket. A few steps closer, she murmured “so sweet,” the sparkles in her eyes above the mask following us, glinting appreciation.  I wore a dress with floral patterns to mirror the botanical garden in flushing. We found one massive,…

I spent months escaping this sunless room. Everyday feeling that I needed to leave it. Until one day, I slept on the floor and there found the brightest patch of sunlight on the very bottomand at night, moonlight leaving parallelogram kisses on the ceiling

Earth King Mall, or Landmark Quest Mall, has an iceberg tip of a front. The individual merchants united in a democratic front of their business, sharing the same lines, orientation and visual weight, and in a single file, betell the essentials of 21st-century living: =Spicy Mix Noodle, course grain refined=Wire transfer China=Mango Mailing Service=Dreamer Art…

Daylight Saving began, my watch is still an hour behind. A week ago I switched my phone service from a major corp to a smaller, newer, less expensive carrier, B. Less expensive being operative. Right when I transferred service, unknown to me, B was having system-wide malfunction. I switched into a ghost land without a…

I always end up with 3 types of liquids surrounding me, as now, on the window sill, are 3 glasses. This thought first hit me 3 years ago, when I was last back home. When, reading in bed, I noticed 3 liquids on my tatami bed sill. The thrill being that of choices. Like continental…

The higher the ratio of private equity to debt providers, the higher the equity cushion, the more reliable a sign it is for lenders, the more likely they are to lend to a project. The more I invest, the more you are assured and the more you invest. The more we reap the fruits of…

Jenny moved her pink shelf into my apartment which replaces the black cubic shelf, the everything shelf that I use to store my outside paraphernalia: shoes, hats, umbrella, keys, coins, perfumes, sanitizers, masks. The pink shelf, made for babies, is pastel, perfectly-sized, with just the right amount of room for my everything. The cubic shelf…