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The Man With No Name
My Dearest Marie I have traveled for many weeks from the Spanish port of Alicante across the Atlantic, braving tempests and disease,...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 26, 20224 min read
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The Warning
Beer. Salvation. Oblivion. Trance. Underworld. It’s a beautiful thing when you don’t care anymore. Oops, you’re free, oops, you’re an...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 25, 20222 min read
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The Kung Fu Master
He’d just bought a bonsai tree to have something growing in his room. He wanted something to nurture – not because it implied his...

wordwizzard
Jun 19, 20222 min read
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The Transformation
Jarred was a tall nervous fellow who smoked and played computer games competitively. He had once done martial arts and retained a wiry...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 19, 20221 min read
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The Fortune Cookie
Denzel was an Eastern European woman. She was middle aged, but she didn’t know it. She believed that she was old at a subconscious level,...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 17, 20222 min read
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Finding God
A family hung around the table, a lightbulb floating above them from a long black cord. It was like a scene from the theater, except more...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20223 min read
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Childhood
Shredder was the bad guy because he thought he was the good guy. That’s what made him better than the good guys – he was unpredictable...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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The Radioactive Booger
He watched the snollie move up her finger like a caterpillar, its little green back rising and hunching and then pushing it forward. “Are...

wordwizzard
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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The Uncanny Valley
The android strode down the catwalk with a sway to her hips, precisely calibrated, monitoring her algorithms. Her long legs moved so...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20221 min read
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The Tower
The tower was in an ordinary road with ordinary houses on a long lane that disappeared into a single point like lines in a perspective...

wordwizzard
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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Transcendence
“Purpose is the most important thing to have. Suffering, without purpose, is the worst kind of suffering. Working, without purpose, is...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20224 min read
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The Pyromaniac
From the south end of the room came a chair, and from the chair came a thousand moments of if only, what if and surely if. It was a chair...

wordwizzard
Jun 13, 20223 min read
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The Man With The Lightning Heart
He wondered what she would do without him. They had become connected. Sometimes, she would be angry with him for things he had done that...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20223 min read
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Blood Stories Of Italy
In the spring of 2017 I flew to Rome with my parents to reclaim my heritage. The son of an Italian, I’d never visited and couldn’t speak...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 13, 20226 min read
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The Lost Girl
She pushes her way through the revolving door in a black minidress, confident and fragile. She shouldn’t be wearing that here. The pawn...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20224 min read
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Listen To The Spirits
“Real artists have a moment when they lose control of their art and surrender to their intuition.” said the thin man in the immaculate...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20222 min read
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Picnic At The Of The World
“What’s gray and can’t fly?” He looked at her with his customary grimace. “A parking lot.” “Wow.” His grin was like wildfire, furious and...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20222 min read
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The Spy Who Was A Sea Slug
David Denton could control a mobile sea slug. He could maneuver it along the floor of the ocean using his mind. Its primitive sensory...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20223 min read
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Donald Trump - American Cannibal
Donald Trump was eating brains. He was always hungry and he had a new idea. The brain had arrived on a platter of white rice. Each of the...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20224 min read
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The Man Who Made Adam
The ice fields, snow white walls on dark blue water, reached as far as the eye could see. Huge towers of glacial blue ice, occasionally...

Alessandro Candotti
Jun 12, 20224 min read
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