Cartel is an e-magazine that deals in humorous personal essays.
In Cartel VIII, Paul Shirley (Can I Keep My Jersey?, Villard) explains why awful weather is our friend in "Ode to Winter." Katie Levisay (FunnyMoms.com) writes about her cursing toddler in "From Potty Training to Potty Mouth." Jenny Bahn, author of "Brooklyn Love Stories," lampoons New York City socialites in "Bad Cherry Bowery: A Short Work of Shorter Fiction." Scott Muska (LadyClever.com) moves on from a broken heart in "Sometimes You Have a Moment and Sometimes a Moment Has You." And Shanna Green wonders, in her essay on 21st-century love, "When Google Knows Too Much."
