Mara Masolini

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“HE WAS ALL DRESSED IN WHITE” by Mara Masolini

HE WAS ALL DRESSED IN WHITE That May afternoon Peter, who was not yet five years old, was stamping ( struggling), rather impatiently in the arms of aunt Clelia, who was so keen to take him, his beloved little nephew, to see the Holy Father up close. She, aunt Clelia, and Peter, in her arms, were near enough to the metal barrier that separated the crowd of people tightly pressed in...

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“AT DINNER WITH...HIM” by Mara Masolini

AT DINNER WITH….HIM  “ I beg (pray) you, please, remember that the lobster must be boiled alive! WOE to you if you throw it in the boiling water already dead! He, our eminent guest, is a very refined palate, eh…so he would immediately realize that the lobster has been boiled when it was already a corpse!  Come on, you don’t make me look like shit with that very big one, who is our eminent...

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“THE INTERVIEW” by Mara Masolini

 THE INTERVIEW He, Karl K., was a world-famous figure, a successful singer for, at least,   twenty years, beloved by audiences of  young, old and even children, when, with what he told, or rather, confessed in that interview, he shocked everyone, indeed he knocked everyone out. Ah, who would have expected from someone like him, who had always been told as a very sunny person ( man), with a...

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“A FRESH WATER SPRING” by Mara Masolini

A FRESH WATER SPRING Ruth had married very young to leave a family where no one had never cared for her, where indeed she was also mistreated. In her family of origin her life had always been hell. Of course, if as a child and as a teenager someone had asked her what plans she had for her life, she couldn’t certainly have answered that she was thinking  of a family of hers, with husband an...

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“THE GARBAGE BAG” by Mara Masolini

 THE GARBAGE BAG What  a   strange dream that   of the last night. He dreamed of his grandparents’ country house, where he had lived some years   as a child. In his   dream Joe   was   going up the stairs that, suddenly lit up with a shining light ,  as they were becoming more steeper and also more and more long under his step ( feet), as if they never ended . He had the feeling, going up,...

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“THE CRYSTAL DAISY an THE MINI HORSES IN THE PRAIERIE” by Mara Masolini

THE CRYSTAL DAISY and THE MINI HORSES in THE PRAIRIE From some months   in the house in front of Clara’s, which had remained uninhabited   for years, after a terrible crime   that had been committed there ____a child of three years had been killed by his mother, who smashed the child head with a pan _____Julie, an elegant and good-looking forty  y...

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“AH, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED” by Mara Masolini

AH, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! He entered the bar out of breath, his hands in the pockets of his jeans, his T-shirt rolled up on his stomach, half uncovered. He squinted, he was not in his own ( he was not in himself) for the impatience to start telling us…oh, wonders. “ Ah, you don’t know, but sure, you can’t know! It happened a few  minutes ago , as I was walking dow...

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“THE SHIRT FROM 1800s” by Mara Masolini

THE SHIRT FROM 1800s It was so long that she not only hadn’t worn it, but she hadn’t even picked it up when, one night she dreamed of wearing just that shirt. In the ( her) dream she opened a door halfway ____maybe the door was that of the living room, maybe that of her parents’ bedroom____and, while she stood in the open half of the door, she could see herself ,...

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“THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER” by Mara Masolini

THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Oh, my God, that Cathy V. was at least a problematic person ( woman), that she was not suitable to her  job , that she also had the easy slap with the children entrusted to her, this Zeta knew it well. In fact she was, for more than ten years, a mediator between the teachers, of the kindergarten The Sacred Heart and the parents of the children who...

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“TRUTH IS IN BLOOD” by Mara Masolini

TRUTH IS IN BLOOD It had the appearance of a small temple, or rather a small chapel, surmounted as it was by a dome  that  resembled those of Palladio. The small chapel had been built by willing people of the town, with the collaboration of willing people of the nearby towns ( villages). Even from the beginning it was known it had been a place of prophecy , of pr...

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“AWAKENING AT DAWN” by Mara Masolini

AWAKENING    AT DAWN It was not yet daylight when Martha awoke from a night of agitated, confused dreams . She was exhausted.  In her dreams of that night, which had just gone, she had always been fighting against overwhelming adversaries ( opponents), who towered over her, who she knew she could never defeat, as she knew she should fight as long as she could, even though...

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“THE WHISTLE of THE MUTE DUCK” by Mara Masolini

THE WHISTLE OF THE MUTE DUCK Cyril Theodor Machiavelli , he was an electronic engineer, and a biochemical, a lover of molecular biology and robotics, a scholar of the evolution, especially regarding animals and plants. He was also an archeologist, who had taken part in excavations in Central Asia and in Mexico, which had led to important discovers of past,  ancient civili...

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“THE BEAR WARNING” by Mara Masolini

THE BEAR WARNING Peter  rushed into the building. He was already late for the appointment he had with Lady Zarlic, also known as the Tsarina, who was waiting for him on the 17th floor.  There were three elevators in that building of fifty floors. As soon as Peter came in the entrance, he noticed , with a glance to their red light, that two of them  were going u...

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“THAT FLICKERING OF LIGHT ON THE TOP OF THE HILL” by Mara Masolini

THAT FLICKERING OF LIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE HILL  “ Are you still here? Come on, it’s time to go to bed! Remember, you have to go to school at morning. You must be up at seven. I will  certainly not let you lay in bed, if you are sleepy “ Diane spoke standing on the door,  she did not move towards Emily, who was standing   for more than an hour at the living room window, (...

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“THE GHOST OF THE APARTMENT BUILDING IN VIA ARIOSTO” by Mara Masolini

THE GHOST OF THE APARTMENT BUILDING IN VIA ARIOSTO Gaetano had begun to frequent that apartment building as a young man, when he was ( had been) a door-to-door salesman, first of encyclopedias, then of household  cleaning  products, then of kitchen utensils. That five storey building, divided into apartments ___on each floor there were four apartments____...

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