Stories

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for...

Grandma went to town yesterday and never came back. What happened? I don’t know. Alma tells me not to worry. She says: “Don’t be scared,...

When the war in Libya broke out, we started working again. Sea arrivals on Lampedusa island and on the southern Italian shores had picked up...

"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...

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...

Do you remember the interview day at the bank? Yes, when we met the director in the management offices, up at the last floor....

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...

As I searched for a penny it began to rain. The blind man opened a parcel and I saw that it contained a small...

As we climb towards the north, towards the Alps, feeling our way along the Grenoble road to get to Lyon and then up again,...

I look at the ancient chest of drawers and wonder if the latest events may be linked to the arrival of this object in...