VERY SHORT STORIES
Gloriana Orlando – Cri
Cri is a butterfly, whirling happily, forgetting everything. Cri is a little long-legged swan, who dances, dances, dances until she is exhausted and whose ...
Sergio Volterrani – Seventeen
The place is far from the village just enough to prevent children from going there alone to play.
Adults prefer not to pass by: to...
SHORT STORIES
Pina Piccolo – The Poet’s Adventure
The poet had everything ready: a light briefcase, a ticket, an address. Now, while he was sitting on a bench waiting for the train,...
POPULAR
Grace Nichols – Lost in Translation
(por el espíritu de poesía en Medellín, Colombia)
As if the earth had shifted axis again
I walk the streets of your city, Medellín,
a hammock of...
CLASSICS
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...
Gertrude Stein – Johnny Grey
What did he say. I was disagreeing with him.
He said he didn't have it by...
Kate Chopin – Désirée’s Baby
As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmondé drove over to L’Abri to see Désirée and...
