short stories

New York was a metropolis where skyscrapers numbered in the hundreds, tearing up into the sky as far as the eye could see. And they were still being built; indeed, the city was about to inaugurate its latest addition – taller, more spacious, and more imposing, the tower would stand as a symbol of the country’s economic might. New York, the Big Apple, the majestic; a volcano in constant eruption, unsleeping. The vastness of a population confined only by the immensity of its bu