Jeff Pacitto Reads

When you find your soulmate your love for one another can persist for millennia...

Tying up the loose ends, Darber moves on with his life.

In the the digital age, with everyone at your fingertips, life becomes monotonous. People become monotonous. Existence becomes monotonous. Some times, you need to get back to reality, back to life, back to flesh. Sometimes, in the wrong way...

Sleeping in a car can be so peaceful. The relaxing rocking of the vehicle as it bobs down the road lulling you into a state of pure bliss. Until your best friend smacks you in the face to wake you up!

Jared's family has a house. An actual, honest-to-god house. How? In this day and age most people are lucky to afford a tiny cubicle of an apartment with enough cash to spare to eat a handful of meals a week.

Darber has friends. Acquaintances, really. But they are there for him when he needs them. And he's there for them when they need him. But even with all that, he still feels alone. So very, very alone...

Moving fast while standing still, static motion doesn't always mean a static life, and sometimes, that's exactly what it means. Join me as I read the first chapter of "Static" a short story about the not-too-distant future where life, if you can call it that, has moved online.

When the whole world is plunged into darkness do you persist, or perish?

In the not too distant future, what does it mean to interact? What does it mean to be present, to be intimate? Join me on this journey as we discover what it means to feel in a future that may already be here.

Welcome to season 2 of Jeff Pacitto Reads. Join me as I take you on a journey through time and space, into the future of humanity. A future that may lay 100 years from now, or tomorrow.

In the twilight of our years, what comes to us is our fondest memories, in hopes that we will be granted access to them once again.

Martin's journey finally ends, and he's not alone any longer.

When the walls we erect about ourselves serve to shut out those who wish to help us, we create our own suffering.

Love is something that can be expressed and interpreted in many different ways, and is often misinterpreted until it's too late.

When someone becomes an implement to life more than an actor within it, what is left for them?

What can you do when your crime is being born with no memories?

Martin is looking for help anywhere he can find it, even if that help comes from a judgmental psychiatrist.

Child, adult, soldier, husband, grandfather...slave to his own body in the end.

No matter how close a couple are in a relationship, ultimately they are both strangers to each other.

Enter the battlefields of WWII with Ernesto as he discovers a stranger in his midst and sets the man off on an unexpected journey.

A very short story to commemorate the holiday season, Winter is far from the normal take on the festivities common at this time of year. We will be taking a few weeks off for the holidays and will return mid-January to continue season 1 with the next story, Chrism.

The desire for freedom lies in the heart of every individual, but that freedom comes at a cost.

Being captured was never part of Carlo's plan, but even the best laid plans have their faults, and in war, the consequences of those faults can be quite dire.

Carlo had lived through two wars, the first he spent running, the second he spent motionless. In the end, they both went one without him.

After Angelo's encounter with his friends, his mother tends to his wounds while he contemplates all he has believed to be true in life.

Boys will be boys, and as the sticky heat of summer drags on the Angelo and Vincenzo's friendship, they come at odds with each other over their beliefs.

Angelo runs in to Vincenzo and finds there are consequences to his seemingly innocent actions.

Angelo find himself in conversation with his mom, talking about things beyond his comprehension, and beyond his mother's ability to deal with.

Living in the Shadow is a historical fiction short story that takes place in central Italy against the backdrop of World War II. In chapter 1, Home, we meet our young protagonist Angelo on a mid-summer's day on his family's farm.

Hello, and welcome to the introductory episode of Jeff Pacitto Reads. In this very short introduction, I go over the basic principle of what this podcast is about, and prepare you for the first chapter of the first story you'll hear in the next episode.