The Tennessee Tribune, Middle America’s leading African American publication based in Nashville, TN recently published a list of the names and addresses of non-voting registered voters in the 2004 election.The purpose was clear: to shame these people into coming out in 2008. Even though the list of names covers only the local area, the move […]
It was bound to happen. In the most blatant display of fair weather friendship in recent times, Joe the plumber is now suddenly “appalled” at McCain in regards to his views on the 700 billion dollar disaster. As they rode around on the McCain Mobile, the Straight Talk Express and discussed the bailout, Samuel W. […]
He was sitting on the edge of the wooden slats that framed the doorway of the living room in my uncle’s house. I just happened to walk past. I did not go there with any particular purpose. As I mentioned, I just happened to walk past. This was an acquaintance, a distant family member that […]
They had told me not to be worried and so I was. When I came out of the shower, that dress was on the bed. The one that I wore to get my picture taken when I had to get my passport made. “Smile, but don’t show your teeth, not your teeth, arre don’t stop […]
(A story written for MTA’s “Weekly News” Newsletter in 2008) The recipe is simple. Take one set of triplets add admission letters to five of the most prestigious high schools in the country, mix in huge serving of hard work and talent. Garnish with the love and commitment of two parent-employees of the MTA and […]
He loved her so much. The first time he had seen her, he was looking up from Jack Ketchum’s Off Season, to throw a careless ‘thanks’ at the hand that was pouring his coffee, setting down his turkey burger. She was sitting on the next table immersed in a book whose title he could not […]
Vicktor Frankel and fourteen others were herded out of the tent and in line to get their heads shaved. A heavy silence clung in the air and the fifteen that stood in the freezing December morning knew that the prisoners from the other tents were watching them. Even though it was imminent for every peering […]
I’m still fascinated by New York. Every street that I walk down, and it may be for the 100th time, still opens up something a new to me. Penn Station is one example. I’ve traversed almost every nook and cranny of the 34th Street location, and every time I do it, I find something that […]
CAST Elijah: a 22 year old young man A Nurse TIME AND LOCATION Unspecified; Unspecified (till the end) (A spot light comes up on a man in what looks like psychiatrists couch lying diagonally on down stage right. Even though he is lying down, he is looking straight up at the audience. A dull beep […]
CAST Jan: The editor of “The Herald”. Jaded and tired; 36 Julie: A journalist at “The Herald”: Passionate and anxious; 31 Secretary: A secretary, very nervous and servile; 21 The lights come up on an office. It is cluttered . A glass slab on the right side of the upstage center wall reads “The Herald” […]