VERY SHORT STORIES
Miriam Bonetti – Central coffee bar
The Central was the historical bar in town, situated like a breach in the walls that surrounded the square along with an agonizing greengrocer’s...
Mattia Di Carlo – Bass Riff
Some of my new neighbors are listening to Talking Heads. Who the hell is pumping up David Byrne & co. at ten in the...
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
Ra Sh – The Narcissist
All his mirrors were women.
They displayed him with breasts
and vaginas and flesh buds.
Desperate,
he approached a blue lake
to see his male splendor.
His cock-a-doodle-do
his rippling muscles
his...
CLASSICS
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...
T. S. Eliot – Eeldrop and Appleplex
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Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they...
James Baldwin – The Blind Men and the Elephant
There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and begged...
Joseph Conrad – The Lagoon
The white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in...
