VERY SHORT STORIES
Silvia Accorrà – Pomerania
As we climb towards the north, towards the Alps, feeling our way along the Grenoble road to get to Lyon and then up again,...
Fiorella Malchiodi – The Chest of Drawers
I look at the ancient chest of drawers and wonder if the latest events may be linked to the arrival of this object in...
SHORT STORIES
Giorgio Olivari – Nenad
Grandma went to town yesterday and never came back. What happened? I don’t know.
Alma tells me not to worry. She says: “Don’t be scared,...
POPULAR
William Dalrymple – Return of a King
William Dalrymple, an expert on the Indian sub-continent (In India and Delhi are two great books to understand India) takes us to Afghanistan, in...
CLASSICS
H.G. Wells – The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before...
Saki – The Open Window
"My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of...
Fitz-James O’Brien – A Soldier’s Letter
A Soldier’s Letter
January 20, 1862
With the head of a drum for my desk, I sit...
George Moore – Alms-Giving
As I searched for a penny it began to rain. The blind man opened a...
Virginia Woolf – Blue & Green
GREEN
The ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops...
