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
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 are hopeful.
Have you any reason to be.
We have reason...
CLASSICS
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...
Fitz-James O’Brien – A Soldier’s Letter
A Soldier’s Letter
January 20, 1862
With the head of a drum for my desk, I sit...
George Moore – Alms-Giving
As I searched for a penny it began to rain. The blind man opened a...
