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
Silvio Lazzaroni – Alina
My name is Alina and I am Romanian: I know that people look at me even when I buy groceries at the supermarket. I...
POPULAR
Zsolt Szájjbely – Entrance To The House Of Memories
You and me captive in the sloping house of memories,
Let the dreams fly over the sky,
It will resist itself by barbed wire
Debayati Roy
CLASSICS
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...
Gertrude Stein – Every Afternoon: a Dialogue
I get up.
So do you get up.
We are pleased with each other.
Why are you.
Because we...
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...
