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  • The Game of The Crying Skull

    I would like to tell you a story. It started like a game. Perhaps like a mistake. Or rather, I am sure I’m mistaken. I would like to tell you a story.It all started, I hope you will understand, within…

  • You will never be the same

    So he said, “You will never be the same.”Sure I won’t. Murder is something that changes you deep inside your soul and makes you think “I want more”. Killing John had been a matter of taste. His absence from the…

  • SeaLand

    ©Antonis Giakoumakis SeaLand Outfaceshapes,formationsof the sealandand the sky.Colors and lightin a hug. The seas of poets,wordsunexpectedly.Land of the peoplecursedpoor landplowed with sweat,good earth you of the world. The image strongI sink into its depthsin its truth.A subjective oneimpressionlooking for interpretation.To…

  • Mayuhe Revisited

    On the morning of October 28th, my brother drove us to Mayuhe, the forest farm on the southern bank of the Yangtze River where Hua and I worked as zhiqing (educated youths) towards the end of the “Cultural Revolution.” Our…

  • The darkening tree

    Quarks and photons / are gross accommodations, / chips of some blown up god / intractable in the mind, / codes, seals, travelling leaves…

  • GesĂą non tornerĂ  mai

    Precipitando verso / un vuoto pieno immenso / Volando in un cielo / di niente / Nuotando in un mare / nero come il nulla / Io sono il sangue morto…

  • Running Moon

    the cure for pain / I found / inside my cavernous but lucid dreams. / Tonight, / while comfortably resting / at the bottom of old things, / no longer needy of your frozen love…

  • New Year’s Gift

    Ming never really liked his old man. He didn’t know exactly why. While everyone he hang around with had something to brag about their fathers…

  • Perverse calories

    As Troy Warriors, perverse calorieshide inside aromatic chocolates with horsey figures,bleeding stakes, unlucky lobsters, and pedigree wines. It’s a plot to enlarge my vulnerable stomach,destroy my heart, wreck my figure, and crush my skinny self-esteem. Exercise, says my doctor, go…

  • I Feel Home

    I feel home when there’s a pouring rain and thunder keeps striking,I feel home when there’s a sea beneath me and knowing that falling into it I will drown,I feel home when I’m surrounded by mountains yet I cant see…

  • The Iron Bed

    All women of my family gave birth lying on the iron bedall women of my family passed away lying on it.Four generations were born and diedin the iron bed.And now I decidedI can’t stand to see it anymore;it carries more…

  • Emotional Curiosity (2)

    He doesn’t know how curiosity can kill a cat, but he’s acutely aware how it’s killing himself. Ever since she first asked him What do you like me about? when they fell in love again after they’d lost each other…

  • Distance between 27th floor to the Ground8

    It felt like my left side was hit by a something soft, like a soft blab of meat. I could only feel the impact, how fast i fall into the ground. There was no pain or no sound. I had…

  • Follia con Fusione

    Come la disperata passione abbraccia ancora il nero vuoto che scivola in questa celeste camera da letto… Nel mio qualcosa che non saprebbe fermarsi per definirsi in solitarie vesti nuziali e assorbe una luce nauseante come il cuore sepolto e…

  • Appunti dal passo del lupo

    Devo concentrarmi sul bosco e pensare che è fatto di alberi e dietro ogni albero un bosco. Palmo su palmo s’impara a distinguere una corteccia dall’altra, si scoprono le fioriture del muschio, o una punta di gemma. Dentro ogni foglia…

  • Hold me ’till I go

    Katinka hung up the phone and sat still. Time was ticking faster than before, but not passing; how very abruptly and unannounced her future became her now. The calmness of her breath and the newly found weightiness of her long…

  • Heart Game

    One again, he has fallen in love with her. There are as many reasons known as those unknown to him; for example, she somehow looks even more attractive than when he first met her forty two years ago; her personality…

  • Happy Women’s Day

    As women, we too often are expected to be quiet or feminine. To be nice. Not to be boastful, proud, loud, or too assertive. Well, here’s what I want to say: be as boastful, proud, loud, or assertive as you…

  • Shackles of poverty

    Celebrations are in full swing across the country as India celebrates 75 years of independence this year. Standing beside a footpath at Noida, a mother with a baby on her lap sits with national flags but not to mark Independence…

  • Vortice

    -Scusami--Non che mi interessi--Ho solamente voluto dirtelo--Assolutamente--Non avrei potuto dimenticare--Ma forse avresti dovuto--Parliamo di altro--Non potresti negare quanto segue--Non è necessario--Non potresti accarezzarmi?--Forse piĂą tardi--Non potresti baciare il sole e le stelle?--Per quale persona?--Non è importante--Non ne sono sicuro--Non potresti…

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