Email Author Mara Altman

2007 Stories by Mara Altman

• To Catch a Thief

  published June 19, 2007

  A pigeon netting happens like this: The netter parks a nondescript van, scatters some birdseed, waits off to the side until a large flock of... More >>

• Long Sentences, Short Stories

  published June 12, 2007

  It was not your average setting for a book launch party: the George R. Vierno Center (GRVC), one of 10 jails on Rikers Island. Young men aged... More >>

• Diplomatic Decor

  published May 29, 2007

  On a recent Friday evening, a member from the United Nations' Feng Shui Group gave a private tour of the U.N. campus to some of her... More >>

• Feline Woozy

  published May 15, 2007

  It's springtime, which means cats are falling from the sky. As high-rise residents open their windows to let in fresh air, cats invariably fall... More >>

• Mr. Crack

  published May 1, 2007

  Bobby Paige wants to save people from crack. That's why he drives around Harlem like the Good Humor man, selling his anti-crack message instead... More >>

• Class Dismissed

  published April 17, 2007

  Imagine that your boss wants you to sign a document accusing you of something you don't believe you did—a fireable offense like assaulting... More >>

• 'I Live on Seaman, Just After Cumming'

  published April 10, 2007

  When people ask Nick Dalton where he lives, he doesn't say "Inwood." Instead, he likes to tell people that he lives near Dyckman and the... More >>

• Do the Dew

  published April 3, 2007

  "Outright robbery," says Pastor James David Manning about the building being renovated across the street from his Harlem church at Lenox Avenue... More >>

• Coffee Clash

  published March 27, 2007

  Parked just outside a subway stop on Astor Place, the Mud Truck draws a constant line of coffee addicts in a city already choked with java joints... More >>

• Raising Roberto (Again)

  published March 20, 2007

  On January 26, 2005, Specialist Roberto Reyes Jr. was returning to base after a five-day mission when the Humvee he was riding in hit a mine just... More >>

• Lip Service

  published March 20, 2007

  Four winters ago, Sam Kopicko, a 27-year-old who spends her day publicizing book titles at Random House, met Njoki Gitahi, 23, a bright-eyed... More >>

• Bait and See

  published March 13, 2007

  Ward Regan lived in 61A. In 1999, Greg Abbey moved into 66A. Abbey was depressed. Regan didn't notice. Abbey wanted to be alone. Regan didn't... More >>

• Don't Tell Bloomberg

  published February 27, 2007

  Stepping into the smoke-filled basement Viennese Café at the United Nations takes a surprised visitor back to the years when New Yorkers... More >>

• Fold Me Now

  published February 20, 2007

  Marc Kirschenbaum keeps all of his erotic origami pieces in a box, except for the model of a couple copulating in missionary position, placed near... More >>

• Something in the Way He Moves

  published February 6, 2007

  Before Larry Seiler has sex, he often takes a hot shower. The heat relaxes his muscles, which are tight from cerebral palsy. In doggy-style, one... More >>

• Revolutionary War

  published January 9, 2007

  Andrew Avorn doesn't remember, but he saw Columbia University for the first time when he was three years old. Jerry Avorn, his father, had... More >>