Lifestyle - SPOT ON
Little Odessa calmly lies along the Atlantic ocean coastline in southern Brooklyn. Once you set foot in this part of the borough you forget the yellow cabs and noisy sirens back in Manhattan. Cyrillic signs advertising thick white fur coats and beef Stroganoff cover the red-stone buildings on Brighton Beach Avenue. The bearded store owners […]
Blood streams out of my chest. My father was just shot in the driveway of my childhood home. A car is picking me up and drives me away from everything I have ever known. Flaming red high rise buildings are gleaming at me from beneath the avenue we are driving through. Black sirens start humming […]
I was sitting and reading in front of the Center Pompidou and waited for people I didn’t know and didn’t like. She had dark brown eyes and fluffy hair. She asked me if I spoke French. She apologized and I was touched by her nervousness. We started talking, and I knew immediately why she was […]
