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....
POPULAR
Caroline Smith – The Immigration Handbook
Caroline Smith (Orbis 176) is delving here beneath the morass of statistics and forms to uncover the real lives, circumstances, memories and emotions of...
CLASSICS
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Baby Party
When John Andros felt old he found solace in the thought of life continuing through...
Herman Melville – The ‘Gees
In relating to my friends various passages of my sea-goings I have at times had...
Seumas O’Kelly – The Derelict
He Boss of The Golden Barque was very pleased when he was able to resume...
Herbert George Wells – The Magic Shop
I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once...
Robert E. Howard – The One Black Stain
They carried him out on the barren sand
where the rebel captains died;
Where the grim gray...
