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somewhere over the rainbow (and other stories)

  Exactly two years ago I found myself flying through a corner of a rainbow, and landed in Oaxaca, Mexico. It was the last film festival I traveled to, a brutal and sweet experience in the harshest of realities, trying to wrap my arms around the slipperiest industry and failing magnificently. Surrounded by fresh faces and eager eyes I ran from the rooms and into the street time and again, wandering off with the camera in my bag as a companion. I took pictures of a blind man that sang on the same corner every day, of wedding parades, of an old woman waiting to see the dentist.  Literally somewhere over the rainbow, I met the ugliest answers to questions I had been dragging my feet towards for years. Cramming the most delicious food into my mouth, joking at the nightly rooftop cocktail parties, grinning like the Cheshire Cat it was all coming to an end. Actually, it had ended before it even started though - and on the plane back to New York and finally Moscow the bone-crunching ...
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Albino (part 2/section one - the Mars Bar)


I never imagined that the Mars Bar would close. Like a cockroach, I believed it could weather any catastrophic transformation in my old East Village neighbourhood. As every familiar corner was torn down and replaced with an ATM, or a 7-11, or a luxury high rise I thought it would remain, like those ruins in Athens hunched next to fancy hotels. In that, I was dead wrong. 

At the same time, I begin to  realise how often the Mars Bar has been the backdrop for my stories. Albino is a great example of this, and the next section I narrate brings us there on a sweaty summer afternoon. Here is part two, section one of Albino, from a collection of short stories I will somehow put out into the world this year, called Papa on the Moon. My thanks to the good people at Sunday Night Stories, for their interest and support in this awkward, personal tale.



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