23¢ Stories is an open-ended experiment in emergent narrative.

If a city is an infinite vessel of memory and desire, then the postcard imprinted with its image serves as a distillation of those ineffable quantities into a singular, poetic totem - paragraph-length and, for the modest price of a stamp, distantly transmittable.

With the city of New York as muse and the written postcard as medium, we invite you to peruse our racks and the evolving repository of tales they contain, and to send us your own stories of the city, based - as closely, tangentially, or even fictively as you care - on your experiences or fantasies of its towering monuments, urban folds, and hidden histories ...