The Anonymous Driver
by Regina EdelmanOnce I watched a show on National Geographic about dolphin life. The narrator dramatically explained that the ocean is a dangerous place to be, but what about danger on land?The...
View ArticleThe Bicycle Basket Thief
Saturday around ten in the morning, two months after the September 11th tragedy, my husband and I stepped out onto Saint James Place to head for breakfast. I turned to check on my bicycle chained to a...
View ArticleThe Visitors
by Regina EdelmanMom came home from church after ten o’clock in the morning. Spiritually comforted, she sat on the edge of wounded grandma’s bed, and for some seconds pensively watched me feed the old...
View ArticleThe Jew and the African King
by Regina Edelman“This is a cemetery of Spanish and Portuguese soldiers,” my husband told me about the ground framed below our third story window on Saint James Place in Chinatown. “Seven soldiers and...
View ArticleThe Legendary Marvel Comics Reunion
by Regina Edelman The Saturday of the Marvel Reunion arrived. I couldn’t argue the right words with Daryl to make him go to his half hour bicycle at the gym. My Daryl hates to exercise and I tell him...
View ArticleWhat Word is not Written by a Human Being?
by Daryl EdelmanIt is to eschew reason to believe that any invisible man is giving dictation for everyone to follow. That idea may have been necessary in the past, but we all know the bare truth of...
View ArticleTarantulas in a Bed of Dry Leaves
by Regina EdelmanGisela and her siblings came home escorted in a Boomville police car. Few people on the small town street saw the black and white Gol park in front of the Oliveira's house on the...
View ArticleNobody to Denounce Papa in this House
by Regina EdelmanThe old Municipal Civil Guard of São Paulo State was a corporation founded in 1906 to ostensibly patrol urban areas to protect citizens and their patrimonies. It was extinguished in...
View ArticleLaValle at McNally
by Daryl EdelmanHe's funny and thoughtful and opened his first free reading from his third book, Big Machine, by showing the first fifteen minutes of John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing, popcorn included,...
View ArticleAhmadinejad at Battery Park Ritz-Carlton
by Daryl and Regina EdelmanIronically, at this moment, New York City police are on the roof of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, protecting Iranian tyrant and...
View ArticleSouth Lake Tahoe, 1970
by Daryl EdelmanI was twelve. Burlinda, wise fourteen, said she liked my writing but didn't understand it. I remember her family's frowsy black bird walked on the kitchen counter and left peck marks on...
View ArticleReply to Kleo
Dear Kleo,Thank you so much for sharing your view and sympathy for my personal story.I will tell you another story from a chapter of my experiences: A homeless child scratched the door of a car parked...
View ArticleKafka and Me
by Regina EdelmanSummer 2009 the United States is in recession. My husband and I don’t have jobs. No company wants to employ us as if we’re infected and undeserving to continue living after our...
View ArticleDaryl Edelman by Rick Parker
cartoon of me by Rick Parker, best known as the artist on Beavis and Butthead comics for Marvel. Click on the title to view his collaboration with Harvey Pekar in SMITH Magazine.
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