Once upon a time in Turin. The works of debutant authors displayed on a stall in the historic Via Garibaldi, and sold as photocopies with spiral binding in a nearby copy shop. It was 1997.
Of Reality and Dream
Finalist in the Indies Today Awards 2020
My short story collection Of Reality and Dream: Tales for Underground FINALIST in the Indies Today Awards 2020.
Literary Titan about “Of Reality and Dream”
“Cafaro clearly has a way with words as his ability to describe scenes and entities exemplifies the proficiency of a skilled poet.”
― Literary Titan on June 22, 2020 ★★★★
Indies Today about “Of Reality and Dream”
“Unexpectedly insightful and surprisingly poignant.”
― Nicky Flowers for Indies Today on May 19, 2020 ★★★★★
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!
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.
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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!
