If I thought it was worth publishing, you'll find it below. Sometimes in Italian and sometimes in English, I have no rule.
26 December 2020
The line moved slowly. Rot looked with greed at the completely deserted streets: he wished he wasn't there. He gained ground little by little, playing with the clutch and accelerator, stuck between whoever preceded him and whoever, behind him, was even more exasperated. Life, on that avenue leading to the cities of the Angels and the Silvans, expressed itself only in a long snake of waiting cars....
21 December 2020
Dearest, I'll start from the beginning. I had come to take a nice eighty-year-old. One of those who still play cards with friends and never refuse a good glass of wine. It was February 5th, I remember seeing "dentist" marked on the bartender's calendar. I was about to approach Tony, the eighty-year-old, to do my job... And well, I've always given my all at work. You see, I have parameters to...
14 December 2020
I hate being woken up by the sun, even more so opening my eyes and not seeing my room, but only fleeting shapes. Trees? Yes, trees. I'm looking at a window. One of many, it seems. Then people and smell. Okay, windows, people and a world scrolling by. I'm sitting on a bus. Yet I don't remember getting on it, let alone falling asleep on it! I need to talk to the driver. As I walk down the aisle I...
07 December 2020
He would remember this evening for a long time. He was sure of it. Usually he tried to limit himself with age, but after spending a hellish work day – what anger seeing the long-awaited and hoped-for promotion slip away – he really needed a change; to push his limits a little further. So yes, for that evening he asked for an underage one. The criminal offense was a memory of the past, at most he...
30 November 2020
"The moon certainly looks huge tonight" "Yeah" If anyone in the world had ever wanted to award another human being for the gift of synthesis and brevity, well, that award would have undoubtedly gone to Mr. Fausto: "yeah" was his answer to almost everything. In town, it's said that it was even his answer at the altar, when asked if he would take his wife in marriage. Fausto knew perfectly well how...