Adelino Carbonera

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2024

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“The norm” by Adelino Carbonera

Submitted to Contest #275

Annulment and dissolution, despair and absence.I, who was nothing, who had never existed, and who would remain nothing because the ground of my burial would never be plowed or sown, saw. I saw how the restless shapes of those around me floated, wandering aimlessly in eternal darkness. There was neither above nor below; no direction spoke to me of a place to reach. Those mimes resembled me, although deep down, I knew they were nothing more than reflections of a meaningless form. Like actors in a pantomime without an audience, they moved like ...

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“Transit” by Adelino Carbonera

Submitted to Contest #274

The sky was a deep blue when the ferry entered the channel that cut through the lagoon. We were sailing between two dawns: on one side, the moon was setting; on the other, dawn was rising, tinting the sky with pink hues. Zaraqadir was no longer just a whiteness on the low coast; I had arrived in the radiant East.I saw minarets, mosques, and palm trees appear. Trains passed along the shore on their way to Goletta. Leaning on the railing, I felt an unparalleled sense of well-being, as if I were being reborn into a new life, in a time paced mor...

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