VERY SHORT STORIES

Heiko H. Caimi – Alice in the mirror

  After taking a shower, Alice stood in front of her mirror, without looking at it. It was a large, vertical mirror, almost occupying the...

Heiko H. Caimi – Sick Earth

  I came home in the evening, while long shadows were extending between the buildings, bridging at dusk. I crossed the main street and slipped...

SHORT STORIES

Giorgio Olivari – Zuava

Elide was born in 1926. Born a fascist. She was the daughter of a railway worker, who had been obliged to become a National Fascist...

POPULAR

Rishi Dastidar – Come on abacus

Common sense-ism tells us all this look at me energy, this childish hope that we might belong to somewhere, someone, has to be expended before we get given...

CLASSICS

Willa Cather – Peter

“No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it until...

William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the...

Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I...

Barbara Baynton – The Chosen Vessel

She laid the stick and her baby on the grass while she untied the rope...

Wislawa Szymborska – Writing a résumé

What needs to be done? Fill out the application and enclose a résumé. Regardless of the length of...