Winter on Pine Avenue
On Côte-des-Neiges Road — across from The General Hospital. Street crew digging out: men shovel snow onto trucks. Waiting for the tram, pigtailed Magyar refugee girl of twelve. Blue mittens, wool hat,...
View ArticleLondon Walk
I am walking again. Bedford Square to Charing Cross Station. One foot in front of another, one step at a time, through the much rehearsed theatre that is a Tuesday evening’s traffic in Bloomsbury....
View ArticleHampstead Ponds, Tuesday Afternoon
Someone tried to mug me years ago. I still find it hard; the boundary can be broken, compacts snapped. I didn’t want to walk along the water’s edge. See - six or seven men and boys, a dog dressed in a...
View ArticleRed Night
[Orchard Street, New Haven, CT] Red lights like a three-eyed monster over traffic in the sooty dark, red everywhere in memorials around keeling light poles, desert wine bottles, flowers dried up like...
View ArticleSpanish Harlem
Fine Fare they keep the pedialyte and infant formula behind sliding locked plexiglass or they will be stolen by people who want to keep their babies healthy but don’t have the money Dollar Store that...
View ArticleShoes
I passed a truck on Broadway with walls you could see through. Inside were rows of sport shoes. A woman on the street was writing prizes on a wheel: Pen, Water Bottle, T-Shirt, Shoes. She had shiny...
View ArticleTouched
Spiegel, out for his old man’s constitutional, he calls it, through the city center, envies the couples he passes, yes, because they’re couples, but more because he sees how they touch one another,...
View ArticleTracks in The Neighborhood
On one of those walks through the neighborhood he saw imprints of shoes left on the cement of the sidewalk, filled with water. At some point, judging from the size of them, a man — not a woman, must...
View ArticleJust Before Prince Street
Casually she pulls the plastic spoon across the soup cup that should hold diner coffee and takes a taste and her long leg outstretched past metal grating forms a plaid more striking than her pants and...
View ArticleA Letter from the Editor
September 21st 2014 Dear Reader, Welcome to Issue Fourteen of StepAway Magazine This issue was published on a momentous weekend for Scotland. The decision to remain within the Union has provided a...
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