Mark Nero

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021

Stories (19)

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“I Am The Night.” by Mark Nero

I ‘love’ this time of the year! All Hallows Eve… or All Saints’ Eve or… what we call it today, Halloween. I mark my calendar ever year for October thirty first, as it’s the only night of the year that I can be truly myself among normal people. Who am I? I’ll start with who I was… My name was William Smith and I was born near London on the eleventh of January 1666, during the Great Plague o...

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“Hi, Facebook friends!” by Mark Nero

Hi, Facebook friends!This is my last post for a while. If not forever…I’m in a beautiful town in central Italy but I’m not going to tell its name, because I don’t want to be found. Actually, I’m saying goodbye to the old me… The cynical me… The don’t believe anything or feel anything me.3 days earlier…After a breakup with my girlfriend, I decided to head to Italy to clear my mind and regather myself. I was born in Sydney and my parents are Italian, but I alwa...

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“Road to somewhere…” by Mark Nero

Where am I? Where am I going? For many, these are existential questions but for me, I literally don’t know where I am or where I’m going. Other than being in an old ’57 Chevy convertible, with the roof down, cruising down route 66 and listening to Elvis. It was quite warm and judging by the position of the sun in the sky, it was around noon. I was covered by a thin layer o...

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“Past the pasta” by Mark Nero

The day started with the sound of the most annoying sound in the world, which was the sound of my buzzing alarm clock. I could have had the radio come on instead of the jarring buzz, but I needed that edge to shake me from my slumber. I threw off the bed-covers, moaned loudly and immediately felt the chill of my cold, unheated studio apartment in Marrickville. A densely populated - smog and traffic choked suburb near Syd...

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