He turned into his driveway and, as he always did, he paused a second to look at the house. It was an awesome three-story structure of brick and stone. He let his eyes caress its...
The job changed after the Garbage Aberration Act. Any indication of addiction or fixation found in your garbage could lead to mandatory treatment. Nowadays, everyone was in one 12-...
It was 1921 and Vincenzo Castella wanted to expand his bootlegging business into Queens. In order to do that he needed to get the approval of the local Don. He had the support of the bosses in...
It was 1921 and Vincenzo Castella wanted to expand his bootlegging business into Queens. In order to do that he needed to get the approval of the local Don. He had the support of the bosses in...
The worst thing about owning a bar is that you have to see people every day. Today it was Mary T. and Les. As I opened the door I said, “Don’t you two have someplace...
PART TWO
Entering my teens, I petitioned my parents for a trumpet. Some years earlier, probably at the onset of baseball season, I divorced the piano teacher my mother had wedded me to....
It was Christmas Eve at our house in Glendale, Queens. My younger brother, Aly, and I were scrubbed and shampooed; we had to be super clean, both for the party that night and for Christmas Mass the...
It just had to be pouring the day she was selling the contents of her house, but who the hell cared. She pressed her nose against the sliding glass doors. The geraniums had...
It’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and the flea market’s narrow aisles are overflowing with holiday shoppers, searching for the perfect Christmas gift...
