Contents
Fear, Hygiene, and Teaching
Damien LaRock
The Angel of Death over Italy
Fabio Girelli-Carasi
Looming Threats to Transit Workers
Re’gan Weal
The Start of a Pandemic
Ali Mazinov
A Weird State
Keerthan Thiyagarajah
Early Morning Fog
Davidson Garrett
Worrying for the City
Jessica B. Martinez
The Sirens
Led Black
Lamb’s Blood
Steve Zeitlin
2 Working for the Public’s Health, Spring 2020
“Dead on Arrival”
Simon Ressner
Into the Storm
Phil Suarez
Challenging Times
Richard Brea
On the Frontlines of COVID-19, Echoes of AIDS
Steven Palmer
At the Gates of Hell
Patricia Tiu
It Was Not Business as Usual
Christopher Tedeschi
Hard Choices
Richard Jenkins
Coping with Gallows Humor
Steven Palmer
3 Work Turned Upside Down, Spring to Fall 2020
Forgotten Frontline Workers
Re’gan Weal
We Have to Help Each Other
Ralph Rolle
More than a Cashier
Elizabeth Petrillo
At Home in the Bronx, At Work in Midtown Manhattan
Patricia Hernandez
Frontline Workers in a Restaurant
Maribel Gonzalez Christianson
Working for the Apps
Gustavo Ajche
Lessons, Survival, and a Public School Teacher
Damien LaRock
In the Cloud: New York, December 2020
Rachel Hadas
Inside and Outside
Beth Evans
A Horror Story with a Happy Ending
Robert Kelley
Changes to 4 Train
Alfreda Small
Afraid to Go Out
Thomas Barzey
Quarantined and Unemployed in the Bronx
Nichole Matos
Saying Farewell
David Hunt, Tess McDade, and Peter Walsh
Living in a Shelter in the First Year of the Pandemic
Rozelyn Murray
Grief Works from Home at All Hours
Michèle Voltaire Marcelin
The Second Father: A Tribute
C. A. Duran
He Was the Block’s Papa
Veronica E. Fletcher
No Opera Now
Davidson Garrett
Embracing Solitude
Adele Dressner
A Prayer for My Mother
Sumya Abida
Sharing Stories
Matilda Virgilio Clark
A Subway Story in the Time of COVID-19
Ron Kolm
Making Masks, Whatever It Takes
Lily M. Chin
Working and Surviving
Kleber Vera (Flame)
Sustaining Community
Sheikh Musa Drammeh
Building Bonds
Keerthan Thiyagarajah
Organizing
Dave Crenshaw
Clap Because You Care
Led Black
6 Opening Up, Summer and Fall 2020
New York to across Africa
Thomas Barzey
From Lockdown to Curfew
Clifford Pearson
Protests, Riots, and Retirement
Richard Brea
Broken Systems
Alexandra L. Naranjo
Opening Up
Kleber Vera (Flame)
“I’d Like to Think I’m an Optimist”
Patricia Tiu
Discrepancies
Keerthan Thiyagarajah
After the Surge
Phil Suarez
Drawn-Out Deaths
Richard Jenkins
Anticipating Vaccines
Jessica B. Martinez
Have Faith and Fight
Maribel Gonzalez Christianson
The Best Place to Be
Jessica B. Martinez
Registration Nightmares and Vaccine Skepticism
Dave Crenshaw
The Second Shot: New York, February 2021
Rachel Hadas
A Question of Trade-offs
Alexandra L. Naranjo
Slogging Along
Christopher Tedeschi
Changes and Challenges
Jessica B. Martinez
Lexicon of the Pandemic
Pace High School students
Eating Bitterness
Mackenzie Kwok
The Island of Pandemica
Steve Zeitlin
Learning How to Talk to People
Dave Crenshaw
Strength in the Long Run
Richard Brea
“We Were Here”
Re’gan Weal
Remembering Sacrifices and Losses
Veronica E. Fletcher
The Momentum and Tumult of Discovery
Steven Palmer
“Look Out for Each Other”
Keerthan Thiyagarajah