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The City Between Us

Michael Arturo’s absurdist and noir-inflected tales of a city split not by geography but by memory—where every street is a version of the truth, and the real conflict isn"t between characters but between the stories they choose to believe about themselves. New episodes weekly. Stories, Reviews, Analysis. michaelarturo.substack.com

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15:24

Twenty-Something

The City Between Us ·

2025/02/28

The stranger in a wide-brimmed hat seated next to me at the bar hadn’t said a word, but it felt like he was doing most of the talking since I was so drunk I couldn’t tell who said what or what any of what was said meant. And I couldn’t remember if he’d sat down next to me or if I’d sat down next to him, which was common in New York bars. Nevertheless, having a stranger as a neighbor at a bar is convenient when you want to share something you might not share with someone you know.I might have told

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15:37

Skyline (Part 2)

The City Between Us ·

2025/02/21

Solomon came and went, night after night. He never revealed too much about himself—where he came from, where he slept. He seemed to belong everywhere and nowhere at once, slipping effortlessly between the city’s forgotten spaces and its most rarefied heights. There was something about Solomon that Elliot couldn’t quite grasp—something that made him feel both drawn in and unsettled. Elliot stopped questioning how Solomon fit into the world. Instead, they talked about other things. Art. Music. The

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17:03

Skyline (Part 1)

The City Between Us ·

2025/02/14

(“Skyline” was a Top in Fiction’s selection for the month of February, 2025)Elliot Van Alen leaned against the window of his Park Avenue apartment; his forehead pressed to the cold glass. Fifty-four stories below, the city churned—a grid of relentless motion, lights flickering like neurons firing in the collective brain of Manhattan. But tonight, the view offered no solace. Where he once saw triumphs of steel and ambition, he now saw a fractured landscape, its gleaming towers reduced to crumbling

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6:00

Miss Van der Linden’s Valentine

The City Between Us ·

2025/02/12

6:42 AMGreta Van der Linden wakes to the sound of music. His music.Thelonious Monk, drifting up through the floorboards from 4B. The notes coil into her dreams, pulling her out of sleep like a slow, insistent hand at the nape of her neck.She stretches, the silk sheets cold against her bare legs. Outside, the February wind howls down Beekman Place, rattling against the generous windows of her brownstone apartment.Frederick never wakes this early. Which means—someone else must be there.She closes her

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13:29

Who Killed Storytelling? (conclusion)

The City Between Us ·

2025/02/07

Back in his cluttered office, Giordano propped his feet up on his desk, greeted by the unexpected sight of his name plastered across the afternoon paper. Yet, to his dismay, the article painted him as a bumbling fool, courtesy of the sensationalism typical of yellow journalism. According to the piece, the democratization of literature—where books transitioned from exclusive hardcovers to accessible paperbacks—spelled doom for storytelling. It was a stark departure from Gutenberg’s vision, marking a

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12:00

Who Killed Storytelling? (Part 3)

The City Between Us ·

2025/01/31

Giordano returned home to his precinct; he told Chief Schmidt his trip was eye-opening, but he still needed solid leads. The Chief advised him to keep plugging. Giordano was not one to give up easily. He returned to his office and did what any hard-boiled detective in his shoes would do—brewed himself a pot of hot coffee. And even though he had preground the beans before he left, and they had gone stale in his absence, it didn’t matter; stale coffee was merely a bitter reminder of the arduous task

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5:55

Rainspell

The City Between Us ·

2025/01/24

The ride from JFK dragged, the city inching closer in hesitant strides. Rain fell in silver sheets, blurring the skyline into something half-remembered and half-forgotten.Inside the cab, Lena pressed her fingers against the cold glass.She shouldn’t have been here. She shouldn’t have come back.But last week, an email arrived—unexpected, impossible to ignore. It carried the weight of a decision she had been too afraid to make.An appointment. A chance. Or just another dead end.She closed her eyes. The

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13:03

Who Killed Storytelling? (Part 2)

The City Between Us ·

2025/01/16

Giordano smelled conspiracy, so he made a rash decision to leave New York and go to the heart where stories were manufactured—Tinsel Town. The idea was to go large early in the investigation and whittle down the possibilities. So he snatched a copy of Nathanael West’s “The Day Of The Locust” off his bookshelf, caught a taxi, and hopped a red-eye out to the coast.As soon as Giordano touched down in Los Angeles, he stumbled upon a haven for the lost and the hopeful—a fleabag hotel on Wilshire, where

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9:22

Who Killed Storytelling? (Part 1)

The City Between Us ·

2025/01/10

The air around Detective Philly Giordano thickened with a sense of urgency he hadn’t felt in years the morning Police Chief William Schmidt called him into his office. “Philly, we’ve got a murder case unlike any other. Storytelling! It’s been slain!”“Storytelling? That’s unheard of, Chief! Who did it?”“We don’t know. No witnesses, no nothing. All we know is there’s a cold-blooded psychopath on the loose whose intent is to render everyone in New York illiterate! Storybooks, with their words ripped

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5:04

City of Small Things

The City Between Us ·

2025/01/03

GeorgeThere’s a boy in the paper.Fourteen. Dropped out of school.Went to work to feed his family.Carried bricks in the cold.No gloves. No choice.I fold the corner of the page.“This city makes men out of boys,” I say.Margaret doesn’t look up.“Men out of boys,” she says,“but not into anything better.”She shifts on the bench, shoulders tight.Her foot presses the pedal too long—The note drowns.MargaretMy mother hung the wash out in winter.Her fingers bled from the cold.White sheets snapped like flags in

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31:42

Suttle House

The City Between Us ·

2024/12/27

“Suttle House” Author’s Note: Suttle House is a Victorian fable set in 1895. It is an allegory reflecting on the evolving roles of women and the enduring struggle for self-definition. Prudence and Abagail, twin sisters born with monocular vision, embody the duality of perception—one eye fixed on tradition, the other blind to the possibilities of change. Together, they form a single, fractured whole, their lives intertwined by their love for Nathaniel Suttle, a wealthy industrialist caught in their

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