Mara Masolini

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2020

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“THE EMPTY ROOM” by Mara Masolini

THE EMPTY ROOM Alice opened the door, crossed the room and went to open the window.  A wave of weed scent pleasantly surprised her as soon as she put her face out of the window. Since that room, the most wide, and most bright too, of the house had the view on a vast expanse of green, mainly made up of meadows, but in that expanse of green there were also vines, even trees. When she ...

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“MISTER GREEN or THE APPOINTMENT WITH THE MAN WHO REMAINS QUITE INVISIBLE” by Mara Masolini

MISTER GREEN  or  THE APPOINTMENT WITH THE MAN WHO REMAINS QUITE INVISIBLE When he had arrived at the hotel, he should have asked to the reception, but even to the porter, where Mister Green was waiting for him. The communication had reached him through a phone call. He seemed to be hearing again   the  clear, polite voice of that one who had called him, while he was going up on the wide stairs t...

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“THE ARTICHOKE FIELD” by Mara Masolini

THE ARTICHOKE FIELD “ Listen to me darling , as I have told you a lot of times, uh…I have to repeat it every day, uh…, what they do in their field is their business. It does not concern us! We have no right to interfere, we don’t have the right to put our nose into it!” Babel said snorting, almost angry, standing stubbornly turned towards the window, as if he didn’t even want to see her...

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“THE GIRL WITHOUT NAME” by Mara Masolini

THE GIRL WITHOUT NAME  Since he had received the invitation he had kept on wondering whether to go there or not. Of course, Alex and Victor were his friends and he knew they wanted him to attend the party they were going to give to celebrate their wedding. Eh, it had taken a long time  for the right to marry between persons of the same sex could be recognized  in their country. It had been...

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“INTO A DARK ROOM” by Mara Masolini

INTO A DARK ROOM It was a great party that Paul had given to celebrate his forty second birthday. Doing the honors with him was his sixth wife, Catherine, a beautiful girl of twenty years. But to his birthday party Paul had also invited all his ex-wives, with their respective husbands and children, not only those who they had had with him, as Paul had had children with each of his previous...

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“THE LITTLE RING” by Mara Masolini

    THE LITTLE RING  They had found her  at the foot of a cypress. She was almost seated, with her body slid forward, her head resting on the trunk of the cypress. Since the doctor, who had certified her death, had established that hers had been death from natural causes,_____and besides there were no wounds or signs of strangulation or of beatings on her body, it did not seem possible that Helen had been killed, and not even that she could have killed her...

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“HIDDEN INSIDE THE SHADOW” by Mara Masolini

HIDDEN INSIDE THE SHADOW It must have been because of the great country house where she had been living alone for over ten years____it was an old house surrounded by trees: cypresses, chestnuts, lime trees, but there was also hazelnuts _____that Elvira had developed the conviction, that is, she firmly believed, that in the shadows , of the trees, of the things, of the houses, even in th...

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“THE FLEA and THE GNAT” by Mara Masolini

THE FLEA and THE GNAT_____ The last to leave had been that big woman, Gabriella, whom he, Ringo Round, which was a keen observer cat, also equipped with antennae beating,  in terms of capability to perceive, even space probes, could not suffer. Ah, he found her too grimace, too petulant, not to say of her habit to use industrial quantities of deodorants and perfumes, which made the air n...

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“IN THE SHADOW OF THE BIG OAK” by Mara Masolini

IN THE SHADOW OF THE BIG OAK “ Here, it is still there” Lucy said, with a wiggle of her chin to point  straight  , over there, at the end of the lawn. She was looking out the window. In front of the house there was a vegetable garden, with also some fruit trees, a plum tree, two pear trees, three cherry trees. Beyond the vegetable garden there was the lawn, of modest side, a strip...

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“WIND OF MARCH” by Mara Masolini

WIND OF MARCH She had always heard saying, since she was a child, that the month of March was crazy. In March you never could know how the weather would change , not only from a day to the following  but also during the same day. Now it was warm, almost hot, that you could think: oh, finally the winter is over, but after a while, a cold , and sometimes also icy winter wind began to blow...

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“DISAPPEARED” by Mara Masolini

TW: murder, abuse, kidnapping DISAPPEARED Carol V. had disappeared since the sixteenth of July. From that day, indeed from the morning of that day no one had seen her or had heard anything more about her. The last person who had seen her was Roxana B., who claimed to have met Carol that morning____the morning of July 16___on the main road of the little town, the one which led to the Alpine park. She had met Carol on that road at about half past n...

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“THE EAR” by Mara Masolini

THE EAR The  people of the village where Alexander lived, with her mother and her grandparents,  had  always called him the Prince, and he had never been able to understand why. He for himself was a shepherd, who every day took his flock of sheep to pasture. Alexander liked his life as a shepherd, and indeed life was pleasant among those mountains upon whic...

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“RING AROUND THE ROSIE” by Mara Masolini

RING AROUND THE ROSIE Giambattista Vicchi had been a writer who, however prolific____he has written hundreds of works___his fame, not to mention his existence, had not crossed the walls of the town ( city) where he was born and lived all his life. Oh, there, within the walls of his city, he was well known, and was much appreciated, indeed even celebrated. , since one day didn’t pa...

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“THE HUNCHBACK” by Mara Masolini

THE HUNCHBACK She had that lucky charm, which she always carried with her, since a lot of years.  She had found it, as a child, in the Easter egg. The upper part of that object represented a little man which wore a tight, a hat and a bow tie. That little hunchbacked man was laughing  with a smile more malignant than malicious. The little hunchbacked made the horns with the fingers of one hand, while with the other...

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“THE BIT FAIRY” by Mara Masolini

THE BIT FAIRY Tess always said that in the wood she met fairies and gnomes and goblins, and other strange creatures that it was not given to everyone to be able to meet, to be able to see. Cathy, like other little girls of the same age of Tess, who was ten years old, had asked to be able to see the fairies and the gnomes and the goblins she too. So she and the other little girls h...

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