Posted on 07/25/2019 8:31:45 PM PDT by Silly
Dear Diary:
I was downstairs at the Duane Reade in the Chanin Building one evening after work, making my way to the back exit, a convenient entrance to the subway.
The sales floor was abandoned. A lone man wandered out of the grocery aisle in the same direction I was headed.
The doors to the subway passage were locked. I had made the trip downstairs for nothing.
“Subway’s locked,” I said to the man.
“Beer’s locked, too,” he said with a sigh, and then walked off with his little red shopping basket.
— Paul Klenk
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So to celebrate, here is a Silly piece of mine they ran on June 3 which I forgot to post on FR.
(A note about excerpting: As the author of this work, I have received an official release from The New York Times to reprint this piece in its entirely: “You may reprint your story elsewhere after it appears in The Times.”)
VERY COOL!!!
Thank you, dp! I am still hyperventilating about my upcoming piece.
Good on you.
Very nice Silly...
I had to look it up.
Metropolitan Diary.
Short short stories.
Probably best thing the Slimes publishes.
https://www.nytimes.com/column/metropolitan-diary
Good job!
xlnt
Thank you kindly, ifinnegan! The Metro Diary is one of the new columns complete reserved for reader submissions. It is one of the most popular columns, and has run since 1976.
I have been very fortunate to get published numerous times. You can find them by searching my name on the Diary page at NYT. Most I’ve cross-posted here to FR.
The one that got picked up is a doozy, and I am not kidding about the hyperventilating, it has started again tonight. The piece is outrageously funny and I would be very surprised if it does not go viral.
Congratulations.
Well thank you but it wasn’t me :)
I’m sure i’ve done SOMETHING that deserves congratulations in my lifetime.
But I’ll be damned if i know what it is is! :)
Congratulations anyway. Simper Fi!
Congratulations!
Thank you very much!
LOL
I’m still thinking since the last post of something I did that deserves congratulations!!
Have a good one man. :)
Congrats! Great work.
Sorry not “one of the new columns”, but “one of the few columns”.
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