Giulio Coni

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jan, 2025

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“Counterclockwise” by Giulio Coni

Submitted to Contest #286

I. Present: The EndThe sound of the murky water of the Tiber mingles with the cries of seagulls soaring above the shacks of Fiumara. Giacomo, the last descendant of the family, clutches the fob watch between his grease-stained fingers. It's an heirloom now out of place, with its chipped face and hands frozen at some random hour of a forgotten day. His hand trembles, not from cold but from fear. Something moves in the shadows behind him.A shiver runs down his spine as he hears footsteps slowly approaching. His heart pounds in his chest, as if...

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“Camel Yellow” by Giulio Coni

Submitted to Contest #285

I observed me from afar, hidden among the shadows of the boardwalk. The time machine I had stolen – or perhaps invented, I could no longer recall – had brought me there, to that summer of 2000. I didn't know why I had chosen that particular day, but now that I saw him – saw myself – I understood. There was a sweetness in that memory, a whisper of something lost, that I needed to rediscover.He – I – was thirteen years old and didn't yet know that carefree joy could evaporate like the morning mist. He sat in a corner of the skating rink, hands...

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