PinnedMember-onlyIceland, Finland and the Myths cherished by TolkienThingvellir: I am behind the black basalt spur, in front of the immense lichen-covered lawn where the Althing was held, the open-air parliament of the Icelanders. …Iceland6 min read
PinnedMember-onlyFrom Behind“It’s late, Mario, let me go”. She threw herself out of the car, fumbled with the lock, for a moment the light illuminated the entrance hall. She wore a shirt that was a little big on her. He was impressed with the image of his thin shoulders disappearing into the door. He…Short Story6 min read
1 hour agoMember-onlyThe LighthouseA subtle smell of juicy bone in the air I follow the trail drooling and licking myself but my master just raised his hand and made an indefinite gesture I put the bone there. Now there is no longer even that “you’ll see”. A wall, with a heart of mortar, …Poem1 min read
23 hours agoMember-onlyMarta ci vedeOne o’clock, hot silence, heat wave. Thoughts like flies on a wet day. While parking in the shade of the pines, I realize that I went as far as the sea. How long have I not been here? Maybe since the last time I took Marta with us. The pines exhale the…Blindness3 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyNessun doloreIt’s scary how a person comes out of your heart. You look at him and understand that you have given up hope. He will never be the way you want him to be. There is a bridge between you, which you struggle to cross every day, but he never leans…Pain6 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyThe Son of ManBetween her white thighs, the hand stood out, callused, dark, the hand of a carpenter who had traveled a long time under the sun. “Come on, wife, come on. I have to do it … there is no one who can help us.“ Joseph’s other hand was now resting on her belly…Nativity5 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyGordiano Lupi “Il ragazzo del Cobre”“They have always taught her that you shouldn’t plan for the future, because it’s the days that choose the sequence of events. Living life moment by moment is the best medicine to defeat melancholy ”. The Demian series from Il Foglio letterario, directed by Sacha Naspini and Federico Guerri, has…Virgilio Pinera3 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyAldo Dalla Vecchia, “Diabolik dietro la maschera”My only memory of Diabolik coincides with the skits that Johnny Dorelli played in Johnny Sera, a 1966 show, where he played Dorellik, a parody of the elusive Diabolik. …Diabolik2 min read
5 days agoMember-onlyUnfinishedAt the funeral there are friends who find the dead man thin and wasted. Of course, he’s wasted. We think about life, we are all just hanging by a thread, today we are here and tomorrow we are gone, but no one tells the truth, that is, that the guy…Unfinished3 min read
6 days agoMember-onlyMarco Campogiani, “Smalltown boy”“When we were Us, and the world stood outside, everything was light, and as if slippery, while now I can’t take a step.” In the end, they are still Babi and Step, in the end it is still “another love story”. And yet … “Smalltown boy”, by Marco Campogiani, finalist…Homosexuality4 min read
