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Chinese Water Torture
You don't know if anyone ever really underwent that thing you always talked about when you were a kid that Chinese water torture thing you saw in all those old movies where the prisoner was tied to a chair or a table with leather straps and his hands tethered behind his back and had an interminable parade of water droplets falling on his head until he shouted, "Stop," and blurted out whatever information his captors were looking for and which you once tried on your brother who just shook the water away like a dog coming in from the rain which is what you would rather be right now rather than the haggard frail patient hooked up every night to the intravenous line hour after hour to in theory keep you alive as drop after drop after drop enters your body while the border between life and death blurs more and more through one drip after another accompanied by that persistent beep keeping time for the rest of your life.
ISBN 1-59661-151-0
42 pages/$9
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Lou Orfanella's stories capture motion, transition and conflict. His settings are urban and rural; literary and pop; past and present. All resonate with distinct familiarity. We know these characters. We have walked their paths. If we're honest, we'll spot ourselves between these pages.
—Oscar De Los Santos, Editor of Madame Luna and Other Moon Stories
Maybe Tomorrow is a gripping collection of short stories full of unexpected and often dark twists that continue to surprise. Orfanella has created the perfect blend of humor and the macabre that simultaneously delights us and leaves us feeling a bit spooked.
—Roxanne Ringer, Author of Old Enough to Look Back
Lou Orfanella is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama including The Sun Cannot Decide, A Cabin in the Pines: A One Act Play, Brief Encounters: Flash Fiction, Shoot the Unicorn: Reading, Writing, and Understanding Poetry, Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear, In a Flash: Twenty-One Short Short Stories, Excursions: Poetry and Prose, Streets of New York, How I Happened, Allurements and Lamentations, Composite Sketches, and Scenes from an Ordinary Life: Getting Naked to Explore a Writer’s Process and Possibilities. His work has appeared in publications including The New York Daily News, College Bound, English Journal, World Hunger Year Magazine, Discoveries, Teacher Magazine, and New York Teacher. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University and teaches writing at Western Connecticut State University and English in the Valhalla, New York school district. He has presented scores of public readings of his work and offers individual and group writing workshops.
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