topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was just waking up when the phone rang. A friend’s daughter was breathless on the other end of the line. Her parents had left for work moments earlier, and she was almost out the door for the school […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Journal Entry – September 14, 2001 I drove to Mailboxes, Etc. to send my contracts back by FedEx yesterday morning and was reminded that we live in a different world now. “Ma’am, you might as well save your money. […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call The day terrorism crashed into the minds of Americans is still vivid in my head. I was in middle school at the time, and we received an announcement that a tragedy had occurred. We were herded to the auditorium […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call New York to London It was just a normal office day, eating a sandwich at my desk ahead of a busy afternoon. ‘You seen this?’ Justin asked. I turned towards my colleague. ‘What?’ He had BBC News up on […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call   New York September 2001 And what do we now know? That “Godzilla movies” after all possessed a dark, portentous truth? That candlelight, acapella voices and a breeze lofting the flag can make you cry? That wrestling ghosts is […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was praying. In earnest. The Europeans all do this gap-year thing and I was giving it a whirl. But I’m a New Yorker who rarely left the island Manhattan. And now here I was on the Emerald Isle—when […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was a sophomore. It was after first period, my second period class was also homeroom and lunch was next so the T.V. was playing in every classroom from that point on. As we all watched CNN, FOX or […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call PERHAPS IT’S NORMAL IN THE WAKE OF THE DEATH OF A friend you’ve known for so long – and I knew Jif longer than almost anyone in my life – to romanticize youth. So many emotions flood into the […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Somewhere ~ Song Somewhere Something’s breaking down Tears flow From a crying town. Motors roar overhead People Turn Eyes Wide Gaping Mouths Planes Crash Into sturdy souls Flames leap out of Black holes People bound to death People burn […]