Discovered in Thirty Days and Thirty Nights - May 25

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This is not at all what I intended to post today.  Life has turned upside down (I've just been laid off from my job - thanks, Covid - and now I'm having to move house for the third time in less than six years).  But then you sit down to write, and you have to let the muse and its inspiration take you...
This is a teaser for a not-yet completed story, but I _will_ be working on it, because the prompt just reached out and grabbed me when I saw it... it's too good to let go.
(It's the photo at the end, (hopefully) under the cut, because to see it first might spoil things...)

Fortune’s Fate

“I’m telling you, Ray, this is the best Chinese restaurant I’ve had the – wait for it - … fortune … to find.”

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