RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Daily beats from a quieter Manhattan.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Month: January 2016

Funny Music Sample Chapter

 …a sample chapter from Funny Music by David Stone Maggie was waiting at home. I had to bring her car back soon.    She’d accepted responsibility for driving me to the bus station, the dumpy, neglected art deco place that still lit…

Fusible Links: Sex & Civil Rights in a Small Town

Sex and Civil Rights in a Small Town, 1966 “Well,” Bruce announced, “on Monday, we’ll have to go out to looking for jobs, but first, I’m going to show you how to have a good time. We’ll go over to…

Stories from the End of the World

Things I Learned While Insane From a Novel by David Stone …from After Peter: Stories from the End of the World   I guess I’d better clarify where I was coming from and clear up the mystery of why it…

Messes I Made While You Were Waiting for Godot

Rondo This is a chapter from The Messes I Made While You Were Waiting for Godot How to make a decent knot after more than a quarter-million words, some good jokes, wisecracks, stories, revelations and what we learned on the…

Cats in New York City: Adventures, A Cheese Shop in the Bronx

Cats in New York City is a free chapter from Travels with George: New York, a story about the cats’ visit to New York’s real Little Italy, Arthur Avenue in The Bronx. By David Stone / Artwork by Deborah Julian Arthur…

Truths About Conscious Awareness

Truths about conscious awareness… There must once have been at least a jiffy of wholeness, a twinkle in the cohesion of seamless belonging. Every cell may contain residues of history in its universal library. Our desire to rejoin seasons every…

Travels with George: Paris

Travels with George: Paris, an illustrated book told by a cat about smuggle his way to Paris and touring the sites. This is one chapter. Author: David StoneIllustrations: Deborah Julian “This is funny,” he says, flipping the pages of a…

50 Trillion Versions Make Up the Puzzle of You

50 Trillion Versions of You… or more! No matter how many times we hear that number. No matter how easily the words spin off our lips. It’s so big we can probably never grasp it in a practical way. But…