Tag: comics

On a sidewalk in Midtown, during a busy time of day, I thought for a moment that a man was waving...

In an aisle of a grocery store that was popular, but expensive, I passed two women who’d stopped...

During the day, on the upper east side, on the sidewalk out front of a funeral chapel in which a...

During the morning commute, I watched a man who seemed to be lost in thought as the train stopped...

On the sidewalk out front of a theater that had just opened its doors after the nightly production...

In the park a man spoke sternly to the dog that was straining against the leash by which the man...

Through the glass of a window of a bank I was passing as I walked along a sidewalk in Manhattan,...

In the museum a boy was talking loudly about a painting he liked.

On the train I was on, during the morning commute, was a man who spoke loudly, to myself and to...

In a bar, a man tried to tell a woman who didn’t want to leave that it was time now for them...

A young man reached for some coins or some change in the depths of the pockets of his...

At a party in an apartment in the city, in a neighborhood that was nicer, or more expensive, than...

Unable to sleep, I’d left my apartment and had been walking through the park at an hour that...

In Midtown, in the lobby of a building in which I had no business but into which I’d wandered...

In the park an old woman was talking to the pigeons.

In the park, sitting on a bench across from me, on a morning when the weather had become pleasant...

In the city, in the afternoon, a woman who was waiting for the same walk signal I was was holding...

In the evening, out front of a bar on one city block or another, I passed two young men smoking...

While the girl waited for the bartender to fix the drink she’d ordered, a man who’d already been...

At the interview for a job that eventually was offered to a candidate other than myself, the man...