NOVEL ATTEMPTS by ashraya gupta

Went to: Cape Cod, Providence, Upstate New York, Long Island, more Upstate New York.
Saw: katie reedy, ferries, traffic, cranberry bog, rachel lindsay, sand, bay, the last caper, ice cream cones, cirrus clouds, storm rolling in, ocean, salt water taffy, sunset, fullest of full moons, red brick, warm bakery, eric cardona, green moss, steel lavender lake, [...]

Willie Hutch, “I Choose You”, 1973, from The Mack.

Recognize that? Yeah.
The whole soundtrack is good.
Also, I recently happened upon the craziest version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Love Every Little Thing About You”:

Syreeta (Rita Wright), was married to Stevie Wonder and composed a lot of his early hits with him (i.e. “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m [...]

Today, I found this.
It’s the myspace blog of someone I do not know, but contains a series of posts that are, well, mine. From my best-left-forgotten livejournal.
Initially, I thought she was mocking me (deservedly, I cringe a little reading these), but then I got to the poem I wrote when Udbhav broke his wrist. She [...]

Most of these are quotes from other people. It seems I spent a lot of that summer just writing down whatever I overheard—on the ferry, the train, even amongst my friends. Some are notes for articles for the Fire Island News. A few attempts at fiction. And some regular journal entries.
“Come back, Communists! All is [...]

Anna: I was like, “I’ll play with Mike and Rob cause…Hey, why not? But I’m not going to DO music.”
Me: Yeah. You guys are like the guy I shouldn’t date but can’t help sleeping with.
Anna: You ARE dating us.
The Kitchen Cabinet tours Europe!

Going home means I always wind up rereading some book I loved when I was younger. I remember picking up The Mill on the Floss the summer we moved to Long Island. I was about to enter 7th grade, knew nobody in town, except for the 6 year-old boy who lived with his grandparents next [...]

“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.