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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 18
Night had already fallen on Sutton place when Murphy finally walked out of the service entrance. It was not uncommon for him to have to stay late at the building, but it had been a long time since he left this late. An old building had its share of overflowing toilets and broken elevators. The later he left […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 17
“Speak of the devil,” said Gerry, holding open the door. “How was your day, young lady?” “You boys gossiping about me?” Agnes said, jokingly. “You know I enjoy negative attention.” I said, no. Yes, Gerry said. “What happened here?” “Kranepool leapt to his death,” said Gerry. “Shut the fuck up. No way.” “No lie. Kranepool is hell […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 16
The lobby phone rang as it did often throughout the day, no matter who you were on the phone with, a tenant walking through the lobby would see you on the phone and automatically assume it was a personal call. It was not uncommon for a complaint to be made to Murphy about staff using the phone too […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 15
“Oh, no,” said Gerry, with a loud sigh as he opened the door to the building. “Is it true? Oh, God,” Lightbarn wept. Mr. Lightbarn was a tall, middle aged trust fund man-child. It must be nice to have no financial worries. He was one of two shareholders that no longer communicated with me. A goofy […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 14
“Hold the elevator,” Gerry shouted as Carmen walked into the lobby. “Take your time. Slow down. Slow it down,” I said to her as she hurried toward the elevator, with a computer bag in one hand, and a bottle of sauvignon blanc in the other. “Thank you, love.” Carmen as she preferred to be called was […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 13
The phone rang in the lobby as it often did. The traffic lulled, now that most of the tenants were home from work. The medical examiner had come and gone with what was left of Mr. Kranepool’s physical form. As they wheeled Kranepool out on the squeaky stretcher, the body zipped tightly in plastic with the sheet […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 12
Murphy came into the lobby holding a large recycled brown paper bag, Russell was on his break, down in the locker room watching Heathers for the umpteenth time and eating pizza from a spot on first that wouldn’t last. Murphy had some other things to tend to but there was always something for him to do at the […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 11
I left Gerry and Ichabod in the lobby and went downstairs to the locker room to get my toothbrush. Obsessive compulsive disorder hits everyone differently. I had more obsessions than I had compulsions. I don’t have tics or count things but I admit I paid close attention to numbers. I tended to seek out patterns. I probably washed […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 10
Gerry showed up only an hour before his shift started. He had some luggage and a case of Budweiser cans. Ichabod was excited to see me and I petted him and scratched his face. Murphy was talking to the detectives who had left for some time and returned. They had more questions about Kranepool which Murphy obliged. I […]
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All Guests Must Be Announced – Ch. 9
Detectives were in the lobby while Kranepool’s mangled physical form waited to be removed by the medical examiner. The elevator rang, I walked across the beautiful marble tiles and checked to see what floor had buzzed. The number 17 was indicated. Keith Hernandez wore number seventeen. In ‘86 he had 171 hits, 13 home runs, 83 runs batted […]
SEAN GABLER
Middle Aged Curmudgeon. Gritty Minimalist Fiction. Self-Deprecating Non-Fiction.
SEAN GABLER 