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Dialogue with Destiny

Dialogue with Destiny

by | Dec 20, 2024 | C, Chris Fortunato, Short Story

The hushed conversations Rodney Brisco heard in the Top Hat lounge made him think of going to confession on Saturday mornings when he was a boy, awaiting his turn to whisper a few made-up sins to the priest. Sitting with a beer at a corner table, Rodney thought that...
Retirement Deferred

Retirement Deferred

by | Oct 16, 2023 | C, Chris Fortunato, Short Story

Ray knew what awaited him at the garage at the end of the Manhattan to West Caldwell run, the good cheer from the maintenance crew, a twenty-second speech from the supervisor wishing him well in his retirement, maybe a bottle of booze thrust at him with some humorous...
Crazy People

Crazy People

by | Jan 3, 2023 | C, Chris Fortunato, Short Story

Kent Crestwood felt an irresistible urge to pick up a cheese knife and cut into one of the large paintings of potatoes arrayed around the loft. He looked across the cavernous room and all he could see were potatoes large and small, purple and yellow, oblong and...
The Two Lilies (Part 2)

The Two Lilies (Part 2)

by | Jan 17, 2022 | C, Chris Fortunato, Short Story

I told Helene how excited I was to be meeting the daughter of my friend Lily Geary. I took liberties with the assertion of friendship, but the passage of time allows for such indiscretions. +++++“Come on in,” Helene said. “You’re a teacher at Monroe, aren’t you? I saw...
The Two Lilies (Part 1)

The Two Lilies (Part 1)

by | Jan 10, 2022 | C, Chris Fortunato, Short Story

When I saw my old friend Sheila Benhart in her driveway, I did not know that I would soon be breaking into her house. It was an impulsive thing, out of character for the way I had been living my life but some would say a reflection of the true nature of how I had been...