Lara Gregori – A Thread, A Dream

  He could see himself as a child sitting on a rock beside the fire while his mother, her veil lifted and her nails black...

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...

Mattia Di Carlo – Stagehand smokes rosemary

CHAPTER 1 The appointment is for Monday 15 June 2015 at the Hotel Italia, «at 11:00 sharp», the message says. There will also be the other...

William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The...

Lara Gregori – The Pardon, the Grace

  Five stitches on the right wrist, six on the left, Sam White had been marching non-stop for hours from wall to wall of his...

Seumas O’Kelly – Michael and Mary

Mary had spent many days gathering wool from the whins on the headland. They were the bits of wool shed by the sheep before...

Michele Curatolo – The Lost Flowers

Alberto is working in Milan now. Ever since he had started living with Carla, and needed some money to get along, for a long time...

Gloriana Orlando – Christmas Gift

This year I want to make a Christmas crib. I haven’t made one since I was a child. I remember the joy of Christmas...

Gloriana Orlando – Cri

Cri is a butterfly, whirling happily, forgetting everything. Cri is a little long-legged swan, who dances, dances, dances until she is exhausted and whose ...

Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I...

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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...