Have a NYC 3: New York Short Stories
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Welcome to New York City. A place where stories lurk around every corner and linger in the hearts of the millions in these five boroughs. In these pages, tales of the underbelly of modern-day New York City hook-up with hilarious and poignant stories of love and loss in this annual collection of thrilling short stories by seasoned and fresh writers who know how to tell them. Edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, these stories are sharp and concise, each an unusual take on the swirling panorama of the streets of New York, from Hell's Kitchen to Greenwich Village and Coney Island to Williamsburg, Queens, and beyond. Readers are transported by a modern noir sensibility, populated by a plethora of characters of our times, carving new notches of experience on the city that still fires up the imagination. Authors in this edition include acclaimed crime novelist Lawrence Block (A Walk Among the Tombstones, 8 Million Ways to Die), Liz Axelrod, Gil Fagiani, Bonny Finberg, Michael Gatlin, Kat Georges, Kirpal Gordon, Ron Kolm, Peter Marra, J. Anthony Roman, Angela Sloan, Paul Sohar, Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike and Nina Zivancevic.
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Have a NYC is a 1-book series first released in 2014 with contributions by Lawrence Block, Ron Kolm, and Janet Hamill.
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''What do we human beings have if we don't have each other?''
''The Big Apple'', ‘‘The City That Never Sleeps'‘...There are certain cities in our world whose very name creates images in our minds, even though we may have never visited them. New York is certainly one of them. Its beauty and attraction lies in its rich diversity. In people, in cultures, in languages and beliefs. The stories in this striking collection celebrate variety and depict the comfortingly similar ways in which every human being expresses sorrow, joy, hope and despair.
''Out With The Trash'' by Kat Georges: A story about wise gnomes and a despicable woman who treats books like garbage. Set in West Village.
''Memory The Next by Benny Finberg: A moving story about a world that changes beyond all recognition.
''Lustrum at the Flushing RKO'' by Kirpal Gordon: A lovely tale about the joyous, rebellious Irish nature and the narrow-mindedness and oppression of the Church and the religious ‘‘schools''. Set in 1966.
''Namor'' by J.Anthony Roman: A strange story about a graphic designer from Bronx.
''The Cleaning Lady'' by Gil Fagiani: The lively notes of mambo and cha-cha cannot conceal the deep sadness of this story.Again, set in Bronx.
''Hook'' by Ron Kolm: An East Village bookstore becomes the target of nightly escapades.
''Upper West to Lower East'' by Michael Gatlin: This haunting Manhattan story contains a stunning description of the abandoned, silent playground during nighttime.
''Imitations of Christ'‘ by Peter Marra: A dark tale, raw and tragic.
''Compassion'' by Joanie Hieger Fritz Zasike: A story about hope and the kindness of strangers.
''A Park Bench For Two'' by Paul Sohar: In Central Park, two men engage in a weird conversation, the kind Beckett might have written if he had been a ‘‘Millenial'' playwright from New York.
''War, Sex, Money'' by Nina Zivancevic: A young woman desires to go against the rules and common ‘‘ethics'' of our modern world.
''A Clown A Day'' by Angela Sloan: There are a few weird clowns walking in New York...
''The Real North Eighth Street Romance'' by Richard Vetere: A disappointing romance and a naive young man who's fooled by external beauty.
''Dangerous Girl'' by Liz Axelrod: Travelling back in the 80s and the last days of disco. And Girl Power!
''Missing Daughter'' by Ghera Thompson: A worrying mum with an overwhelming imagination.
''A Moment of Wrong Thinking'' by Lawrence Block: A New York mystery story.
The stories are not fairy tales. They are urban to the core, raw, dirty, gritty and so, so real. They are the products of the greatest metropolis of our world. Where people so different and yet so alike come to live together, to love and lose, to cope with reality...
