Literature
Hindsight
I woke up shivering at what was soon to be ground zero. Looking around me, I could hardly believe that it worked, but something in me said definitively, 'it's too crazy not to', so I just accepted it and looked around me.
I had never been to New York. But in a way, it didn't matter. Everyone that's never been to New York has been to New York. What other city is there where everyone knows the neighborhoods, even individual street names and bridges? Madison Avenue, the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Broadway, Wall Street, Central Park… in a way the city itself was like a face that I knew well. I stood up and brushed a few