“Unexpectedly insightful and surprisingly poignant.”
― Nicky Flowers for Indies Today on May 19, 2020 ★★★★★
Indies Today about “Of Reality and Dream”
Captain’s Log
Captain’s (B)Log.
What else?
Finalist in the SPR Book Awards 2019
My short story collection Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground FINALIST in the SPR Book Awards 2019!
BSF Flash Fiction Contest: January 2020
And the winner is… “Il guardiano del faro”!
The very first appearance of my flash fiction “The Lighthouse Keeper”, in its original Italian version.
Please take a look at the contest page on Breve Storia Felice. You’ll find the notes of the judges, the flash and an interview. In Italian, of course.
Thanks to the judges Marco Riva and Roberta Resega from OttoCentro.it and thanks to all the editorial staff at Breve Storia Felice: Chiara Zanini, Gabriele Claudio Costagliola, Astrid DeVilla, and Teo Williger.
New Edition for “Of Reality and Dream”
The second edition is the result of valuable feedback from readers, a restyling that translated into small yet substantial changes: removed the numbering of the stories with the title at the end, replaced by a classic initial title; removed page breaks in correspondence with the scenes that make up The Illusion of Free Will, so as to allow a more fluid reading experience.
Some flash fiction stories, whose stylistic register was out of tune with the whole, were removed for format coherence: The Shadow, Massimiliano Observes, The Substantial Reality of Facts, Game Time and Happy Ending remain available only to the loyal owners of the first edition.
The sequence of the stories and the cover were also reviewed.
Over a thousand free copies downloaded in one day
Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground for free in a one-day promo.
Too bad that it was classified by mistake as literary fiction, and from then on all hell broke loose.
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, 1983
Readers’ Favorite about “Of Reality and Dream”
“A philosophical, mysterious and highly interesting collection of flash fiction stories … The kind of book that you can’t shake easily out of your cerebral cortex.”
― Maria Beltran for Readers’ Favorite on June 11, 2019 ★★★★★
Of Reality and Dream
If life were a movie, the soundtrack would be enough to inform us what is about to happen and, who knows, maybe we could even lull the conviction that we choose the music ourselves. Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will?
“Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground” is now available at Amazon Kindle Store!
Tales for Underground
A mobile web app for reading. A selection of short stories – tales, tweets, Instacomics and other innovative digital formats – to read on your smartphone during your daily trips by subway or buses. An infinite book, which will be continually enriched with new authors and new stories.
On Tales for Underground, some short stories from “Of Reality and Dream”.
Tales for Underground is a project by Osmotica, aimed to promote new forms of digital narratives.
