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MISTER GREEN or THE APPOINTMENT WITH THE MAN WHO REMAINS QUITE INVISIBLE

Weekly Contest #95

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 to access the imposing-looking  hotel. “ Mister Green is waiting for you in the undergroun...

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THE ARTICHOKE FIELD

Weekly Contest #94

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.  He had just awake, was feeling still half asleep, and that …blessed woman , who was his wife, damnation, was again saying that the Richmond, their nei...

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THE GIRL WITHOUT NAME

Weekly Contest #93

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 a great civil achievement , for which they, Alex and Victor, who had been together since almos...

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INTO A DARK ROOM

Weekly Contest #93

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 five wives. He had not yet had any child with Catherine, with whom he had been married only since two months. He, Paul, had eleven ch...

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THE LITTLE RING

Weekly Contest #92

    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 herself_____ So everyone seemed convinced that she...

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HIDDEN INSIDE THE SHADOW

Weekly Contest #92

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 the shadows of human beings, as well as of animals, was hiding something, indeed someone. And when she thought of something or someone ...

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THE FLEA and THE GNAT

Weekly Contest #91

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 not breathable ,   making  his nostrils pinch and his eyes water. However it was she, th...

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE BIG OAK

Weekly Contest #90

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 of land which was not cultivated, to let grass grow, which later would have become hay.  Over there, at the end of the lawn ther...

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WIND OF MARCH

Weekly Contest #89

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.  Now the sun was shining, the sky was clear and after a few moments it suddenly darkened and it began to rain, sometime hail f...

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DISAPPEARED

Weekly Contest #89

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 nine in the morning. Roxana B. was ( had been) walking down the road...

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THE EAR

Weekly Contest #88

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 which you could see the clouds to rest_, and those green plaines crossed by gushing streams ( brooks) where the silver-blue water flowed as if it sang,...

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RING AROUND THE ROSIE

Weekly Contest #88

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 pass that he  was not interviewed or invited to give his eagerly awaited opinion on the most disparate issues  or matters. So he wa...

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THE HUNCHBACK

Weekly Contest #87

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 it held a horseshoe. The lower part of the lucky charm was a red horn. She, Terry, had never ...

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THE BIT FAIRY

Weekly Contest #86

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 had begged Tess to take them into the wood together her, so that they too could see those wonderful creatures. Tess, albeit with some reluctance,...

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SPRING TIME

Weekly Contest #86

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 their glazed appearance that made you think they were ceramic flowers, yet with their unmistakable perfume, even if barely perceptible, a bitter sweet scent wh...

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