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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...
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...
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...
SPRING TIME Every year when it was spring again, and you felt spring in the air, in the wind, you saw it in the light, for her it was time to adventure, her heart beating tightly, in the ditches between lawn and lawn, looking for those jonquils so rare, which standing upright with their sober , solid, enchanting appearance (look) among needles and weeds. They, with...
WELCOME SPRING It was the first day of Spring and in the large park of the small town a great party had place, the party to welcome Spring. The park was magnificent, even Strunz was a small town, it had a wide green park where, together pines and cypresses , there were also cherry trees, pear trees, peach trees, apricots trees, almond trees. All these trees were now just in bloom, or their flowers w...
TW: suicide TIME DENIED The room, with white walls, even if of a far from immaculate white___there were stains and scratches on the walls, was narrow. The light came from a window on the ceiling, very high. When Lily was brought there, , it had to be the first day of the year. She remembered that those who had grabbed her to load her into a van that looked like a hearse, complained : “ But you look, even today, which...
A HANDFUL OF FLASHING COLORED CONFETTI “Damn it , I was about to lose my house keys…ah, I have not lost them by a hair…thank goodness I noticed in time” Peter said himself as he was on his way, coming back home. If he had lost his keys, it would have been a trouble, since there was no one in his house, and he had never wanted to keep a spare key, that is a key hidden somewhere out...
FRIZZY He had originated___or had been born___in the water of the bathtub, in the Morrison ‘s house, while Tommy, the youngest son of the Morrison, a child of five years, was taking a bath. Who knows how, who knows why , at a certain point, he, Frizzy had come out in the water of the tub, which was full of soap bubbles ___and Tommy was playing with those ethereal colored bubbles, making them move, making them fl...
THE ENCHANTING MERMAID The water in the gulf, of a deep blue, which, under the rays of the sun___it was a summer afternoon___sent out emerald green reflections, that were sprays of light, was calm, motionless as a mirror. A seagull squeaked down on the still expanse of water , to soon after get up again in flight. Suddenly the mirror of blue water began to stir, rippling ...
THE AMAZING APP The idea had been of the young mayor of the city , who was a woman, Chiara D., very well seen, not to say supported and sponsored even from by the bishop’s curia, in the elections that had seen her win over opponents and competitors more experienced than her. The city of Poppy was indeed a provincial town , which until not many yea...
ALL THE COLORS OF THE MOON ___WHAT COLOR IS THE MOON TONIGHT? Ulrich was a teenage android who had been made for a mission to Mars ten years earlier. He, like the other few teenage androids, had been programmed to teach the most disparate languages to children born to women of the human species , but who were born on Mars, who were not exactly the same as the children who were born on the...
THE SURPRISE WAS VERY DOUBLE Friedrich and Lily had met on a dating chat for adults looking for a partner. They had chatted for more than a month every day, talking about their life, about their interests or passions, they had been happy to discover ( to learn) that they shared several of them. Both Friedrich and Lily loved animals, above all they loved cats, both of them loved music, espe...
BUT YOU LOOK WHO SHE IS Pierre ,since he had divorced, about ten years ago, lived alone in a terraced house in the green area of the provincial town where he was born. He lived alone, but he was alone up to a certain point, since he was surrounded with animals: three cats, one dog, one goat, and then chickens, pigeons, geese, canaries and parrots. Yes, because since he was the only one ...
THE UNKNOWN OF THE PORTRAIT Paul, even if he believed, like others, that painting had ended with the impressionists, kept on painting. He had always painted still lives, also still lives with..- flowers, bouquets of flowers, vases with flowers, flowers scattered on the ground, and even single flowers, even sunflowers, of course. But, instead of looking at Van Gogh, , he rather ha...
AS A SHADOW COMING OUT OF THE PAST “ Don’t you recognize me? Ah, a lot of time went by…..But, look at me…take a good look at me….Oh, it’s me! Really don’t you recognize me?” He asked with a vibrating voice, and as he asked, his eyes __it was evening and there was fog___they lit up like two light bulbs, coming towards him. In the dream Peter met him at a corner of a street, coming out from...
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