Saki – The Open Window
"My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; "in the meantime you must try and put...
Italo Bonera – Vertigo
Evening aperitif.
It is the moment that I usually spend with my friends at Commercio coffee bar, lingering in front of a spritz and appetizers...
Giorgio Olivari – Do you remember?
Do you remember the interview day at the bank? Yes, when we met the director in the management offices, up at the last floor....
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 on a southern slope,
While the sunlight streaks the apples...
George Moore – Alms-Giving
As I searched for a penny it began to rain. The blind man opened a parcel and I saw that it contained a small...
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...
Giorgia Boragini – The strange case of Elda Rodriguez
The day they would kill her, Elda Rodriguez woke up at 6 am, after a night of hazy dreams. An unresolved dream left a...
Virginia Woolf – Blue & Green
GREEN
The ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten...
Beatrice Buonaguidi – The Two Goliards
Sior (Mister) Alvise Zanatta was never seen at home and many of those who knew him, and would see him around the “calle” both...
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William Dalrymple – Return of a King
William Dalrymple, an expert on the Indian sub-continent (In India and Delhi are two great books to understand India) takes us to Afghanistan, in...
