A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Girl on cell: There are only one or two guys who a girl will be willing to have sober sex with. I said SOBER, not CYBER. Cyber's a whole other issue. ~on 35th street. Gotta love New Yorkers Sign in to see full entry.

Its 28 degrees out, and they turned off the heat last night. I escaped to Starbucks and Barnes and Noble this morning and afternoon, and now I'm bundled up under a blanket and several layers of clothing. I have no idea why the heat has been turned off--it was on earlier in the week when temperatures were warmer! Anyways, tomorrow I'm going back in to work. Its been a long time since the last time I went. I'm enjoying reading submissions, even if some of them are truly awful. Sign in to see full entry.

Thanks to those of you who commented on the beginning of my story. Any feedback I can get is appreciated. Here's more of the story. Like the last part, it's not completely edited. It's turning into something luch longer than I'd expected. And I don't have a title yet for the piece, so any suggestions for that are also welcome. This evening is no exception. I watch Sarah and her friends talk and laugh, and feel left out, deciding that its time for me to leave. I quickly tap my roommate on the... Sign in to see full entry.

So here's the beginning of the story I'm writing. Let me know what you think: “Not tonight,” I say, “some other time.” “Come on.” Sarah, my roommate and best friend from college, grabs my arm and pulls me forward along First Avenue. “I really want you to meet my high school friends. Besides, what would you do by yourself all alone in the apartment on a Friday night? Please? Only for a few minutes?” She gives me a puppy-dog sad-face, sticking out her lower lip a little and looking at me... Sign in to see full entry.

Last night I had my writing seminar--I went even though I was feelings very under the weather. Hey, I'm paying for the class, right? Anyways, I need to spend the next three days focused on my writing for the class: I have a story idea that needs to be written. I believe I told you about it a long time ago. It's a love story, or rather anti-love story, about being young and living in New York right out of college. There's a girl who falls in love with a guy who followed an old girlfriend here... Sign in to see full entry.