Excerpt from Movie Star Parking at the White Tower
She stopped under the streetlamp at Atwood Street and Euler Way and tried to count the snowflakes as they dropped through the light onto her face. The White Tower Restaurant was long gone and had been replaced by a mundane shop on the back end of a bland, brown rectangle of a building.
“What are you doing, Gracie?” Nick asked.
She said, “Well. I’m going to tell you why I lost it back there. I promise it makes sense.”
He shook his head, marveled at her as the snow seemed to fall around her and not on her and said, “Okay. Let’s hear it.”
She proceeded, in faithful detail based on various versions of the story she had cobbled together over time, to recount the highs and lows of the last twenty-two odd years and what had led her to the spot under that streetlamp at that very moment.
She began her tale in 1966 on that final night of Movie Star Parking at the White Tower.
About the Author
Patrick Halferty and his wife live in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with their Labrador retrievers. They have four adult children and an ever-growing family.
