Moonless Nights

There are difficult decisions in life that must be made. The ones that hurt the most or are most difficult to make, tend to be the most rewarding or the ones that makes you realize that you are stronger than you give yourself credit for.  This came to mind because I was watching a TV show and I realize I had something in common with one of the characters; I was having a hard time understanding my relationship with a particular person. I don't want to go too much into details but pretty much I realized I had two choices: I could either walk away and accept that it wasn't going to happen the way I wanted it to be or I could simply accept what we had and understand I wasn't going to receive anymore than that. She chose to walk away but I didn't want that to be my choice. However, today I found myself thinking about the whole situation again because I'm at a point that I'm trying to put myself together not just mentally and physically but emotionally as well.  And ...

Part 1 The District Attorney's office was much more welcoming than the police station. When you watch enough Law and Order you have your own idea of how the police station is supposed to be, the interrogation room and the detectives. But this was nothing like that. It was normal people not as pretty as Olivia and Elliot trying to find out who hurt me. At the District Attorney's office I sat in the waiting room. They asked me to take a seat in a waiting room filled with toys and a TV playing cartoons. I sat in a little corner and tried to keep my eyes focused on the television. Dora the explorer was playing in Nick JR. A little girl walked in the room with her mother and began playing with the toys. What happened to her? I wonder. But didn't conclude anything. I don't think I wanted to know. I was already in a complicated situation. At least she had someone there with her to hold her hand. I was alone. I felt weird; the I don't belong here, maybe this was ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez March 6, 1927- April 17, 2014 "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry." "There is always something left to love." "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." "Nothing in this world was more difficult than love." "No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."

My fellow writer John Rozankowski wrote an article about the importance of keeping our station agents. If you live in the city of New York and you ride the subway you have probably notice that little by little the MTA is getting rid of the station agents. Removing the station agents make it unsafe to ride the subways. We know that we have the swypers that damage the turnstiles to get people to pay money to them if they want to get swyped in; not to mention that many times the machines take your money and do not put the money in the metrocards. Let's do something about it! Please read up on this article and take a minute to sign the petition. Link To The Article: http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/2014/04/04/the-mta-plots-to-remove-all-station-agents/?fb_action_ids=633478346723824&fb_action_types=og.comments&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 Link To The Petition: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/station-agents-must-re...

This is an excerpt of the original draft of The Threat. I found myself stuck after a week of writing this draft. Hence why I fell behind in the NaNo challenge. I thought I should share it. I wonder if this idea would've been a much better one. Chapter One Where do we go from here? “Is everything alright?” Timothy was always wearing his dirty sneakers, his jeans that didn’t go below his ankles and his black beret that never left his head. He reached out slowly for my hand and he could feel how cold they were. He tried to warm them up with his own. “It was a long day.” I mumbled. “I’m..I’m really sorry.” He wrapped his arm around me. “You and your sister are really strong girls.” “I don’t know how strong we are going to be after this. It was really hard when mom died, I...I didn’t think I would make it without her. But somehow dad helped us stay strong. But he is gone…”I tried to hold my tears. Timothy had seen me cry countless times but today I was trying to be str...

“I thought he had an agreement.” Janice said. “You stay away from my son!” I saw the yellow school bus pull up. I walked outside with Jake, kissed him, wished him a nice day and furiously walked back to the building and slammed the door. “We had a deal? What deal? You lied to your son about me. That’s why he left to California. He left me and his unborn child because you told him I had slept with his best friend.” “If you had-” “You drugged me and video taped Malcolm sexually harassing me and you gave it to Matthew, your own son! And told him I was sleeping around with his best friend. Now, how do you think Matthew is going to feel when he finds out the truth?” “He is not going to find out the truth. I’ll offer you whatever you want. Please, don’t ruin his career. He has everything going for him. You have a boyfriend and a home, what more do you want?” “I want you to buy me and my son an apartment in Manhattan with a great view of the Hudson River. I want it to be unde...