Bonny Finberg
Bonny Finberg's chapbook of short stories, How the Discovery of Sugar Produced the Romantic Era was published by Sisyphus Press. Her work appears in Evergreen Review, four Unbearables Anthologies and Lost and Found: New York Stories from Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. In Paris she has contributed to Le Purple Journal and Van Gogh's Ear. She has been translated into French, Hungarian and Japanese. She recently finished her first novel, Kali's Day.
Go to any YouTube video of Patti Smith and look at the comments. Most of them look like little notes left at the feet of a saint in a sacred grotto. The unbelievers have their say as well, and as often happens, their skepticism or rancor provokes the faithful’s pugnacity.
I headed for the black silk dress with spaghetti straps. A man held it out at arm’s length and told the salesgirl, “I’ll think about it,” handed it back and walked away. I rushed over as she was putting it back on the rack. “How much?”