VERY SHORT STORIES
Davide Rissone – Lacquered duck breast
I am here lying on my bed while my wife is there in the kitchen with the boy for private lessons. Since we moved...
David Valentini – It’s the law
It’s been twenty years today. I almost forgot. Had you not been interviewed today maybe I would have never thought about that. Look how...
SHORT STORIES
Anna Ettore – The Gypsy Night
That was my first time there. It was the end of February; the gypsy camp had been reported in the fields behind Chiaravalle abbey....
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Robert E. Howard – The One Black Stain
They carried him out on the barren sand
where the rebel captains died;
Where the grim gray rotting gibbets stand
as Magellan reared them on the strand,
And...
CLASSICS
Robert E. Howard – The One Black Stain
They carried him out on the barren sand
where the rebel captains died;
Where the grim gray...
Lord Dunsany – The Bureau d’Echange de Maux
I often think of the Bureau d'Echange de Maux and the wondrously evil old man...
Jorge Luis Borges – Borges and me
To the other, to Borges, it is to whom things happen. I walk through Buenos...
Sherwood Anderson – Respectability. Wash Williams
IF you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a...
The Watering Place
Like all seaside towns it was pervaded by the smell of fish. The toy...
