VERY SHORT STORIES
Heiko H. Caimi – Alice in the mirror
After taking a shower, Alice stood in front of her mirror, without looking at it. It was a large, vertical mirror, almost occupying the...
Heiko H. Caimi – Sick Earth
I came home in the evening, while long shadows were extending between the buildings, bridging at dusk. I crossed the main street and slipped...
SHORT STORIES
Giorgio Olivari – Zuava
Elide was born in 1926. Born a fascist.
She was the daughter of a railway worker, who had been obliged to become a National Fascist...
POPULAR
Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus
Common sense-ism tells us
all this look at me energy,
this childish hope that we
might belong to somewhere,
someone, has to be expended
before we get given...
CLASSICS
Willa Cather – Peter
“No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it until...
William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the...
Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat
For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I...
Barbara Baynton – The Chosen Vessel
She laid the stick and her baby on the grass while she untied the rope...
Wislawa Szymborska – Writing a résumé
What needs to be done?
Fill out the application
and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of...
