A collection of my linked short stories will be published on April 30.

The Claudia Stories

Claudia Marron has an interview a world away from her home in Brooklyn. The ninety minute trip through the labyrinth of New York City reveals the imaginative tales of the people she sees in her neighborhood and the strangers who populate the landscape of traveling to the upper east side of Manhattan.

The immigrants who run the local bodega, Sweet Hearts; a middle schooler who tames the bullies on the local bus; the woman with turquoise eyes rehearsing her programming pitch at Telemundo; and the nanny who quotes Eleanor Roosevelt, are some of the fourteen characters linked by Claudia’s journey.

In these stories, the strangers she passes have lives just waiting to be imagined. These are the inhabitants of a complicated city; they have so much more to them than what we see: invisible people who brush up against us on an ordinary day.

What power do these momentary connections have for Claudia and for us?