Every third Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, the ghost of my Great Grandfather stops into to my favorite bar in Prospect Heights. Inconveniently for everyone, he always sits at the center stool, creating gaps on either side of him as nobody likes getting wet from the splashing beer falling through his translucent body.
Storyteller Ryan Britt at the Franklin Park Reading Series on April 12, 2010.
The photographs covering our kitchen table all share a singular theme; they’re portraits of the various stadium lights which surround the perimeter of McCarren Park on the edge of Greenpoint.
Ryan Britt will spend the month of April writing one short fiction story per week set in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Ryan’s writing has been published with Nerve, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and is forthcoming in Opium, and Clarkesworld. He has performed stories on stage with The Liar Show, The Moth, Stripped Stories, and Heeb. Ryan’s plays have enjoyed staged readings and full productions in New York City with Collective Unconscious, The Longest Lunch Theatre Company and The Tank. From 2008-2009 he wrote a short story every day and posted them to his blog called “Side Affects,” He lives in Brooklyn.
