“He said he’s got the hotel ready for us tonight. I was supposed to go yesterday, but my moms was buggin’ so I’m going tonight. He’s coming to get me at the next stop,” went the conversation being held behind me as I waited for the subway this afternoon with a bunch of high school students fresh from dismissal. When I turned around I saw exactly what I expected: Two teenage girls in school uniforms in all of their shaved faux-hawk, false-eyelashed imagined maturity who probably thought they were more grown than I was…. More




















