This week’s Trifextra challenge is to write a piece between 33 and 333 words using the three words listed below. The words must each appear in the piece in the order given.
1 – cacophony
2 – soap
3 – insects (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Trifextra – “restoration”
Posted: April 6, 2012 in FictionTags: challenge, Empire State Building, fiction, life, medicine, New York, restoration, Trifextra, writing
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another day
Posted: March 15, 2012 in FictionTags: fiction, flash fiction, life, luck, New York, Photography, random
Jimmy sat on the bench in Union Square, his bench, keeping alert. He could spot them streaming through the park – the suburbanites hustling to make their escape from gray reality of the city to the warm, muted colors of home. He’d always pick out a few who would toss (more…)
magical
Posted: December 18, 2011 in TravelTags: art deco, Christmas, holiday, joy, life, New York, Photography, Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall
If you ever get the chance to go to New York City during the Christmas season make an effort to see the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. Having grown up within 10 miles of the City I was lucky enough to attend this extravaganza several times as a kid. Generally, a Christmas movie would be shown followed by (more…)
passing smith’s
Posted: November 29, 2011 in FictionTags: fiction, flash fiction, New York, night, Photography, Smith's, writing
At 1:15 a.m. the streets all look the same. She took the glass offered by…what was his name? Ken? Carl? It didn’t really matter. All that mattered was she was drinking a Cosmo while riding in a limo through Manhattan on her 21st birthday. The world outside passed like disjointed scenes from a movie.
She felt bad ditching her friends at the club, but (more…)
family dissected, city style
Posted: November 4, 2011 in Humorous BitsTags: Charleston, cities, Dallas, dissected, family, humor, New York, random, San Francisco
A little while back several crackerjack bloggers shared clever and amusing posts which equated states to family and other assorted characters. I believe it started with the delightful H.E. Ellis riffing on her stomping grounds of New England. Then the smart and prolific BrainRants blanketed both the West Coast and Midwest with pithy observations. (I said prolific, didn’t I?) The engaging sandylikeabeach quickly followed with a wonderful breakdown of the multiple personalities contained within her home state of Florida. If I’ve neglected to mention the contributions of other social observers who joined in, I apologize. They say memory is the first thing to go and, all things considered, it could be (more…)
shooting new york
Posted: October 29, 2011 in PhotographyTags: challenge, New York, no pity, Photography
It amazes me what some people can produce when they photograph in New York City. It takes a certain kind of genius to capture little moments in a city larger than life in such a way that makes the viewer react on a purely gut level. With their photos you can literally feel the sights and sounds of a particular (more…)
everybody’s a photographer
Posted: September 4, 2011 in PhotographyTags: camera, New York, Photography
One unmistakable social change over the past decade is the proliferation of photography. Thanks to digital technology we have smartphones with cameras, pocket-sized point and shooters, and DSLRs. Many purists also still use film cameras. This technological leap has made it extremely (more…)
Trask Avenue 