I happened to come across this article about short stories: that seemed to have quite a following. Does writing short story really differs from longer ones when it comes to choosing the words? Should words in a short story really summarize better a meaning that you’d describe with longer sentences in a long story? No, […]
In All Possible Ways “I’m fed up! You don’t know what you are talking about: sex is fantasy, and fantasy is woman!” Dana said, almost shouting in direction of her colleague. For the past week, she had been arguing with Rick about who of them had more imagination during their hot encounters. They had never […]
As many of you have probably noticed by now, even if I try hard to keep my short stories “short“, I’m often unable to do it. It happened with the last one, Slightly Untuned, that reached 11.500 words. It happened with The Impertinent Masseuse, that reached almost 7.000 words, while In All Possible Ways reached 13.500 […]
Slightly Untuned As long as he could remember, Leon had never liked to be among unknown people. He had never liked parties too much; he had never liked to go to the cinema – closed in such a tigh space with nowhere to run – or to the disco. But there was an exception to […]
Today I came across someone happily promoting his latest book posting the cover on a famous Facebook group. The book seemed printed, but I hope it wasn’t because in both the front and the back of the cover there were very, very bad grammar mistakes. “Too” had been used instead of “to”, “your” instead of […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 5 – End His car had never felt so slow, like that night. The sky was already dark, and the dispersed clouds covered the thin sickle that was left of the moon. The sparse lights along the road blurred away as he speeded in the short stretch of highway that connected […]
As of today, I begin a new project: I Write You. You may use the form below to submit me a short description of one of your secret fantasies. A set-up, an event, a game… whatever. Periodically, I’ll choose one of the submitted ideas and I’ll write one of my short stories for you. Try […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 4 Leon and Susan slept only for a couple of hours. When he woke up, due to the fact he had drunk quite a lot at the club too, he absolutely needed to pee. During the night, though, they had both changed position and the result was Susan’s head resting on […]
Slightly Untuned – Part 3 Susan lived in a town nearby and it took no more than twenty minutes to get there. When the GPS notified their arrival, they were in an area composed mostly of small, two-storey, colourful townhouses. Her one seemed to be a shade of orange but Leon wondered if it wasn’t […]