Fate

 So I set down. Waiting for one of the very limited ubiquitous first interviewing questions in optical.... 

It didn't happen that way. 

Instead:

"Who is your favorite author?"

"Excuse me," I said to Carol, the Office Manager, looking to be about my age, fifty-five.

"Who is your favorite novelist?" She asked again matter of fact finding

"Andrew Vachss! Of course," I said without hesitation.

She smiled ever so slightly, "And what is your favorite Vachss novel?"

""Flood!" Of course! Then probably, "Blue Belle," I said.

"What about Marcel Montecino? Heard of him? If so? Favorite Montecino novel?"

"'The Crosskiller!' And, 'Big Time,' being a very close second."

"When can you start?"...

(Peace! More to come...)