November 2021

The Automat

The Automat By Patricia Hemingway   On a narrow side street in downtown Manhattan, the lights are still on in Malik’s Automat Café. The surrounding offices are dark and their elevators sit at ground level, empty and quiet. The security guard who lounges behind a desk in the cavernous lobby next door to Malik’s, whose […]

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The Wake

The Wake By Gabrielle Blair   No fancy funeral home with polished floors and polished knobs, and undertakers in undertones, and soft-spoken mourners in subdued lighting – where money speaks. Theirs is outdoors – the street is closed. Plastic chairs in rows on cobbles – familiar faces – the village folk of Six Corners face

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