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One sweltering night, in a neighborhood on the cusp of change, boy meets girl. If they'd only gone home together, they might still be alive. Loisaida -- A New York Story is a steamy elegy to the East Village at its pre-gentrification grittiest. An aspiring dancer is slain, allegedly by her psychotic lover. A dilettante actor turned journalist who thinks there's more to the story investigates.
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The Simulated Life Elapsed Experience Process aka The Death Trip — “comfort care for the dying” or something more nefarious? After the death of his beloved grandmother, Chuck decides to investigate. He soon finds himself torn between two women — the activist who suspects a dark agenda and the beautiful MD who helped create the process.
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Marion on May 30th, 2010

My parents grew up during the Great Depression when even in New York, rents were cheap — though no one could afford anything.  My mother was raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the Southside in cramped apartments –railroad flats mostly, four people in less than 400 square feet.  They’d move whenever her mother found a better [...]

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Marion on February 22nd, 2010

Here’s a podcast of a story I told on WBAI on the Next Hour in January 2009. I had developed the story in a workshop I took through Narativ and was invited to tell it as part of their “storytelling circle.” The story is true and follows the rules of Narativ’s techniques.
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