INKROCI N.24 – JUNE/JULY 2017
Stories
Robert E. Howard – The One Black Stain
They carried him out on the barren sand
where the rebel captains died;
Where the grim gray rotting gibbets stand
as Magellan reared them on the strand,
And...
Anna Ettore – The Gypsy Night
That was my first time there. It was the end of February; the gypsy camp had been reported in the fields behind Chiaravalle abbey....
Words from Ireland
Interviews
“Room Little Darker”: June Caldwell interviewed by Catherine Dunne
This month, I’m delighted to feature the writer June Caldwell as she prepares to launch her first book of short stories ‘Room Little Darker’....
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EDITORIAL
The Border
Crossing the border: crossing the frontier, going beyond the border line.
An interpreter, similarly to a translator, is always a symbolic boundary: he/she lies between...
COVER
COMICS
Literatures
Aoibheann McCann – Sanctuary
Limbo
You will not tell me how you got here. You cannot tell me how you got here, but I do not even ask. Why...
Aoibheann McCann – One of those women
I brought on the bleeding seven times over the years before it stopped altogether. Miriam down the road, then her daughter, would peer out...
Wallace D. Wattles – A new Christ
This times I’ve decided to talk about a great book, yet still widely unknown: A New Christ.
To those readers who may discard the book...
Aoibheann McCann – Johnny Claire
We crowded around the screen and watched him putting ‘J.C.’ into the Hall of Fame. He had got the top score in Street Fighter...
Aoibheann McCann
Aoibheann McCann was brought up in Donegal but lives in Galway. She writes fiction, non-fiction and the occasional poem. Her work has been published...
Ahimaaz Ben Paltiel and the Book of Descents
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the discovery of a manuscript found in the Library of Toledo Cathedral by Adolph Neubauer, a librarian...
Reviews
I am mine [Io sono mia]
Sofia Scandurra (Rome, 1937-2014) is a writer, screenwriter and documentary maker. This is her only...
In This World
Some Afghan kids are playing in the muddy refugee camp in Shamshatoo near Peshawar looking...
Conor O’Callaghan – Nothing on Earth
Shards
A distraught young girl appears on the doorstep of a man living alone, and tells...
Will Eisner – Last Day in Vietnam
War as an experience
Eisner, through the collection “War stories”, brings the reader to Vietnam and...
Theodore Sturgeon – The Dreaming Jewels
Hope is a dream within reach
After having suffered the umpteenth injustice, Horty, a weird adoptive...
Barbara Garlaschelli – Mermaid
Suffering without rhetoric
One day in the month of August 1981, Barbara Garlaschelli, who is both...
Lucille Fletcher – The Girl In Cabin B54
High Anxiety Mysteries
A ship's doctor thinks he has permanently buried his past but a creepy...
Dead Men Ride (1971)
Aldo Florio is not a director specialized in western movies, he doesn’t shoot memorable films,...
Ring Lardner – Out of breath
Breath of emptiness
The characters of this collection of short stories act in the glorious America...
Erri de Luca – In the name of the mother
We are all Miriàm
“In the name of the father”: marks the beginning of the sign...
