The New York Edition Review Novels & Stories

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CHLOE'S POV (New York City) The morning sun was barely hitting the pavement of Manhattan, but I was already sitting cross-legged on my bed, the glowing screen of my phone illuminating the dark room. My eyes were furiously scanning the headlines of The Manhattan Ledger and three different high-society blogs, my jaw clenching tighter with every word I read.

As she read the headlines, one news, in particular, left her frozen in her seat. New York’s Most Desired Bachelor has finally Settled Down. She read the entire article, trashing it immediately when she was done. A heavy sigh escaped her mouth as she lay back on her seat, her hand supporting her spinning head. She took the file from her bin and straightened the papers, reading through it again as if in denial.

He wasn’t sure what he was going to watch since he didn’t watch TV that often. **** Beverly was at The N.Y. offices catching up on her email. The N.Y. was a two-year-old news website that put out a hard copy magazine every month. Some people called it a gossip rag. Whatever it was The N.Y. was the most popular online site in New York. The N.Y. was popular for not holding punches and printing anything about anybody newsworthy. Beverly had just made full-time employment. The pay was better than being a temp all over the city, but she still had to watch her pennies. New York was not a cheap city to live in.

​The New York of the "Great Audit" was a city of weight of iron, ink, and the slow, deliberate pace of verification. But beneath the surface, a new current was huming. "The Echo" wasn't a currency you could hold; it was a whisper in the ears of the disillusioned, a promise of returning to the frictionless speed of the old world without the oversight of the Archivists.

The New York Times feature published on a Sunday in November. I read it at the kitchen counter in the Capitol Hill apartment at seven in the morning with Eleanor in the carrier against my chest and Julian beside me with his coffee and the Washington November morning outside the window doing what November mornings did which was arrive cold and clear and entirely without apology for what the year had cost to produce them. The feature ran to four thousand words.

New York – The City Rising from Darkness Weeks after the downfall of Leonardo’s Mafia, New York was finally beginning to rise from the ruins of chaos. Citizens who had once fled returned to the city, trying to rebuild the lives they had left behind. Destroyed offices were being renovated, businesses were reopening, and the once bloodstained streets were now filled with pedestrians again. The media headlines painted a narrative of victory. "NYPD Successfully Fights Crime and Restores Peace!" "Leonardo and His Criminal Empire Crumble – New York is Safe Again!"

"How many." "That's not relevant." The corner moved further. He looked back at his phone. I looked back at the window. The city continued past us in the specific golden light of a Friday evening in winter, the particular quality of New York at eight o'clock when it was cold and clear and the buildings were lit and the streets were full of people going toward things they had dressed for. I watched it and I thought about the synopsis I had memorized and the critical discussion about the set design and the footnote about the librettist and I thought: this is fine. I have read the footnote. I am prepared.

Summer arrived the way all things worth waiting for arrived without announcement, simply there one morning, the city warmer than it had been the day before, the light lasting longer, the particular quality of New York in June doing what it always did: becoming, briefly, the best possible version of itself. I had been writing for three months.

The East River was starting to turn a pale, slate gray outside the steel-framed windows, the first indigo streaks of dawn cutting through the humid haze of the New York harbor. "The presses are running," Maya murmured, her voice thick with sleep, her fingers tightening slightly against the fabric of his shirt. She didn't move away; instead, she shifted her weight, tucking her chin into his shoulder so she could look out across the dark floor toward the glowing monitors. "They are," Julian replied, his voice a low, gravelly vibration in the quiet room. "The phase-balancer caught the inductive spike. Your neighborhood chronicle is currently clearing its first hundred impressions."