Philipe Nicolini

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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“I Won't Shame You” by Philipe Nicolini

How far can our manners wander when we are speaking of the small dignities one woman might give to her man. Suppose they are lovers for a thousand years, she had sung him sweet support and waved him off to war? They birth and toil over a fine litter together. They share the champion of the arts in sweet little homespun stories. How they met on an ocean liner. How their lips seemed to draw closer to one another. All the world sees them as an old staunch mix of gentle politics. The way they both ramble at dawn, he sets down the coffe...

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“Fish haven't any Feelings” by Philipe Nicolini

Submitted to Contest #174

My wife walks down the hall and asks me to put my hand in her pocket.I comply.She's asking what the day has given -- more specifically "If [I] know what [I] have been given?" For all the fresh air, unlimited clothes drying on the line, and the beauty of a sand yard.Ummm... I try to tell her that I am grateful. "I even collected the spiders (with a vacuum using your lingerie,) See?"She wants to see the jar where I put the spiders. It's a Vlassic jar that once housed salt, garlic, "natural spices" and pickles. "That's good. That's very fine wo...

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Sometimes I get emotional because I'm trying to care. Again.