The City Between Us

Michael Arturo’s absurdist and noir-inflected tales of a city split not by geography but by memory—where every street is a version of the truth, and the real conflict isn't between characters but between the stories they choose to believe about themselves. New episodes weekly. Stories, Reviews, Analysis. michaelarturo.substack.com

The City Between Us is a fiction podcast hosted by Michael Arturo, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michael Arturo hosts The City Between Us, a fiction show with 51 episodes published.

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  Zenith Solutions

  Oct 7, 202513 minS0

  <p>Bob Forrester trudged through Central Park under a stubborn gray sky that refused to rain despite October’s promises. The air was thick, and the damp breeze carried a faint scent of old leaves and forgotten memories.</p><p>He thought he’d forgotten where the fountain was—or maybe he couldn’t remember if he’d forgotten where the fountain was. But when he located it, he sighed, took a seat on a nearby bench, and waited.</p><p>An overstuffed pigeon strutted nearby, side-eyeing him, which felt oddly judgmental. Something about being stared at with one eye unsettled...

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  Innocent Bystander

  Sep 11, 20259 minS0

  <p>Foghorns moaned low across the Hudson as first light strained against heavy clouds, draped like wet cloth over the tenement buildings along MacDougal Street. On the third floor, in a narrow kitchen with a view of Passanante’s Ballfield, the morning chill seeped under the windowsills, threading its way into the bones of the small apartment where Julie lived.</p><p>From her window, she saw a cluster of figures in the field on Houston Street—practicing Tai chi in the mist, their slow, deliberate movements blurred into abstraction. They moved like ghosts, rehearsing something ancient and private. Further off...

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  The Last Brando

  Aug 31, 202513 minS0

  <p>Marlon Brando: more than an idol to Johnny “The Ram” Rampole—something akin to a saint or a wayward prophet. Since his teenage years, Johnny had modeled himself after the Method great: dressing in torn T‑shirts, worn dungarees, and gritty leather jackets so retro they stood out like a sepia ghost in modern Manhattan.</p><p>Now in his forties and decidedly out of shape, Johnny looked like a miscast statue from a wax museum’s “1950s rebel” exhibit—thick around the middle and terminally confused.</p><p>His cramped Lower East Side flat was practically a shrine to a bygone era...

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  Bullet To The Head (Part 5)

  Aug 24, 202514 minS0

  <p>Jimmy Tong was dead. Eddie Cardone had watched the life bleed out of the only man who’d ever taught him the rules of Chinatown, the man who’d pulled him from Columbus Avenue street corner cons into better-paying hustles. And then, when Eddie needed him, Jimmy had tried to save him, driving him out of Chinatown under fire, but the night had eaten him alive.</p><p>That left Eddie to run alone, without his closest ally, through streets that felt stranger with every step. He remembered Lillianne as he ran, and why he couldn’t leave Chinatown on his...

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  Closed Casket

  Aug 17, 202512 minS0

  <p>Vic Martelli’s crew ran uptown, everything north of Central Park. They had the high-end card rooms on the Upper East Side, and all the dope moving through Harlem. Ran it classy, too; never had to shout when cash could do the talking.</p><p>Carmine Russo’s boys—they had the West Side. Hookers, dockside smuggling, and a bunch of nickel-and-dime street rackets that kept the lights on.</p><p>Martelli was silk. Russo was sandpaper.</p><p>They worked together fine, mostly—until somebody got in the way. Then, yeah, maybe a guy took a bullet. But business...

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