This series of screenprints explores fleeting personal moments of romance, loneliness, and heartbreak as experienced living in New York City, capturing glimpses of emotional states shaped more by memory than verity. Each piece pairs illustrative, comic-inspired portraits against photographic backdrops, establishing a visual tension that reflects the dissonance between internal perception and reality. While the environments remain specific, the figures exist in a warped, fictional space, mirroring how we reconstruct relationships and moments through longing, regret, and desire. The apple, an ever-present icon for some vulnerable appendage of emotional risk, and the conflict between recklessly offering it to others, or concealing it entirely as an act of self-preservation. Together, these works examine how shared moments are reshaped between those involved and how personal perception becomes a subjective narrative rather than truth. These brief vignettes reflect a reluctance to exposure and commitment while navigating intimacy in a metropolis defined by emotional distance.