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Will that ever happen to me, I ask myself, searching for a subway token." Many Madame Realism essays conclude long after her return home from the show she is ostensibly reviewing, with her staring out a window of her apartment at night, collapsing into bed, snuggling with her cats, turning off the TV and the light.

Life sentences: Lynne Tillman's genre-crossing stories of a fictional art critic

I had $53 in my pocket and a subway token. My socks actually matched.

Are you political enough by choice?

Overtaken by technology, they sit in the past alongside the phone booth, the subway token, the office typing pool and even the card catalog.

Out of circulation; Could the bookmobile come back?

Eventually I found a subway token. I was so hungry I went to the station to try and sell it."

Storm's turbulent early life

her knapsack, she clutches her subway token, sings the city

Five-and-Dime Queen

The bottle is shaped like a starfish, and the emblem is a subway token. "A surprising number of New Yorkers are attached to their neighborhoods," noted Ms.

Me-toos get booed: the saturated fragrance market needs inspiration

I couldn't even buy a subway token to look for work," she said.

Hard luck and welfare

Yet just when "Jesus Hopped the `A' Train" has one fumbling in one's pockets for the subway token that will spirit one home, Jones shows up on his side of the prison yard.

JESUS HOPPED THE `A' TRAIN

I went to the extravagantly criticized production armed to flee, a subway token burning a hole in my hand.

Defending 'The Capeman.' (Paul Simon's musical)

July 1 as they were headed underground for a story on a murdered subway token clerk.

Reporter leads residents from burning tenement

Irishman Maurice Fitzgerald, a shootout champ a decade ago, sometimes uses an old Irish punt coin, but most of the time places a New York City subway token right behind his golf ball.

You can drop a dime, or something expensive