In the hands of Carmine Tenebruso, the mundane world opens to other dimensions. Fortune Wears a Twisted Smile presents stories in which the improbable odds, the brave move, the wild belief can save the day. And sometimes the veil between dimensions lifts. Characters who get a coveted second chance at life either seize or squander it - a lighthouse keeper who discovers his predecessor's dark secret, a shopkeeper who finds the son he never had, and a bank robber whose fate shifts again and again. Tenebruso's layered realities and openness to possibility present a way to write - and a way to live.