The way telemarketing works, they bring in a group of thirty temp workers for a trial period then keep the ones they like.  During the first meeting of our first day at the call center we were told our name was Simon. “This is so, when the clients call back saying they spoke to [...]

See the dark bar, the bikini-clad dancer draping a large window, grinding to the clash of drums and guitar. No one else in the bar watches.

It was 12:30 on Saturday night and I was at this live-music spot in the East Village.  I was two Jack and Diets and a shot of tequila deep, still feeling a residual high from some weed I had smoked earlier in the night. I sat at the bar with two old chaps from yester [...]

A character in the air, Falstaff or Juan Otero, rapping at the window. Their breath curdles within the inferno of my throat. Paralyzed by ogling cherubim under glass, leering at the tottering oaf I have become, the addition of a millennium. This landscape is a sieve over a beaker of mixed gases leaving its silty [...]