Category: short story

various short stories

Plight Thee My Troth

There were two brothers, the older named Kain, the other Unable. Their father turned sickly and was put to rest, leaving all his riches to the first-born, which was the custom all men followed when the end took hold of them. Kain had 600 acres of fine grazing ground, and a lordly house on a high hill. Adjacent to this…

Fazzini Must Have You Ever At Her Side

One evening in July, just after dark, Fazzini, a mere child, hardly more than six, now living with his famous mother, was seen racing across Vicenza. His friends, spotting him, called out, “Marco, Marco, where are you going so fast?”–but the boy flung himself along, taking no time to reply, inasmuch as his racing was indeed borne of emergency and…

The Yellow House

In our family we were always sick, we were always dying from one thing or another, death’s face occupied every wall and window, no one ever went anywhere for fear of giving up the ghost in a strange place. Which to our mind every other place was. Strange. And strangest of all, the pretty yellow house across the lane where…