by Jack Stratton | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
“Six?” I shook my head and smiled again. She bit her bottom lip, but under the circumstances, her demeanor actually changed very little. Ana was a tough nut to crack. We’d met through this or that, the way people uptown meet. She was bright, book smart, art smart,...
by Jack Stratton | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Did she fall? She was sometimes clumsy. Stretching on her well-worn white sheets, she pulled the blankets back over her naked body. She rubbed her legs together. She combed her fingers through her hair. She moved her hand down the side of her body, over her hip, and...
by Jack Stratton | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The band was going to break up. It was a fact that became increasingly evident as days went by. Kate tuned her bass. She was in a thin white cotton tank top and a pair of paint-splattered jeans. Her tattoos peaked out from under her shirt and could be faintly seen...
by Jack Stratton | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Truth be told, Elise didn’t even really like him. That’s not to say she wasn’t already wet when she got off at his subway stop and climbed the familiar stairs into the lingering evening sun. She hadn’t been to his apartment in weeks. She hadn’t walked through the...
by Jack Stratton | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The girl in the beret came to the speakeasy on Mondays and Wednesdays, the quiet days. The somewhat secret bar was at the end of an anonymous alley on the Lower East Side street. Its plain metal door had no markings. You had to know someone to find out about it and...