Of Sound Mind
Standalone · Literary fiction / character-driven psychological drama
Tony DeLuca remembers every detail of his life. He’s finally writing it all down.
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Tony DeLuca has finally decided to write it all down.
Forty years in a cockpit. A childhood spent noticing things other people forgot: the full memory of a Christmas morning when he was four, a signal from a Fort Lauderdale television station, more than a thousand miles away, that shouldn’t have been possible to receive. A marriage. A retirement. A life, in his own words, from the very beginning.
He’s very good at this. Everyone has always said so.
Of Sound Mind moves between two timelines: Tony in the present, sitting down each morning with a cup of coffee and a legal pad, and Tony as a boy, growing up in a house full of brothers, a sister, and parents whose habits and small rituals shaped exactly the kind of man he’d become: precise, warm, a little wry, the sort of person who cross-checks his own memory the way he once cross-checked instruments in a cockpit.
It’s a quiet story. Funny in places. Genuinely tender in others. It’s one man remembering his own life, carefully and completely, because for the first time in decades he has the time to get it all down.
Ask Tony about any of it, and he’ll tell you. In detail. He always has.
Of Sound Mind is a short literary novella. You can read it in an afternoon.
