Browse Stories

Aletta, a celebrated travelling violinist, believes her treasured instrument is the source of her gift. When an accident destroys the violin, she is devastated and fears she has lost her identity and talent forever. With the support of her mother and a kind trader named Hai, she learns that true artistry comes from the musician, not the instrument, and finds hope, healing, and love.

After their breakup, Peculiar returns to apologize and asks Lisa for another chance. Although she still has feelings for him, she's afraid of getting hurt again. Now, she's confused and asks her readers whether she should take him back or move on.

Free as the wind, they say. Oh, easy enough to say “the wind,” but is the wind ever really free? Look up at those curls of cloud chasing one another and changing shape, now wild horses, now steam trains, now Babylonian archers making love: it’s the wind that blows them, shaping them the way a child shapes clay, but who blows the wind? Air, as everyone knows, is always hunting for empty spaces to fill, and in moving it leaves countless new ones behind, which fill in their turn, and so on and on.

Sometimes it only takes a few minutes before you realise you've made a bad decision.

An ageing British man stumbles upon a JD Sports bag filled with money and takes it up to his apartment. Now he has to think of ways of dealing with the surprising windfall, provided he can get off the couch and stop smoking weed. Also, there is a ghost involved. Probably.

A story about experienceing death at the end of 7.

A romantic boy is next door with some spicy.

A document from an alternate history.

He liked the bar. He liked it more than what was happening above it.

After all, we are all covered in skin.

He's a retired cop and now a private investigator. He's lost his girl. His life is empty without her. His only companion is a loyal German Shepard Angel Dog. Then, his phone rings and his life begins to make sense again with a challenge he needs to conquer.

Humans have been telling their own story for as long as they have known themselves. They call birth the beginning and death the end; in a universe they take for their own backyard, they look up at the sky and search for their own likeness. And yet, trapped inside the very infinity they are trying to grasp, in a universe where a single moment can shelter billions of years, they shelter in dreams a few thousand years old. _From Beyond Time_ takes the infinite possibilities of the universe and th

The hour was late as I walked out of the police station, but I figured I still had time to pay a visit to our dear Dr. Euler. The Charleston Medical Institute (CMI) was around downtown, and I had no difficulty in finding it. Actually, I was a little surprised that I had never noticed it before. It was a monster of a building, towering to what I believed was eleven stories. At the front desk there was -- what do you know? -- a blonde receptionist!

I met Melvin Wicks for the first time at my sister's funeral. I remember how he came up to me after the ceremony and without a word, touched my face with his hand. I was so startled I didn't know what to say. He looked at me for a long moment out of his pale, watery eyes. "Yes," he said thoughtfully, "you are her brother." Then he turned and walked out the church, leaving me totally dumb-founded.

I hated you when I saw you that first time, but I soon learned to love you, because I realized that I was wrong about women. I used to hate women, because I thought they were more unnatural. I thought they were more fake, because they lie more than men. But by studying the so-called "fairer sex" more closely, I realized that they are actually less fake on average, because they are crueler and less intelligent...

It’s a about a evil which who pretends to be a maid so she can put a curse on the princess

Five activists occupy an abandoned villa near Bologna to protest housing policies, but a mysterious crack in the asphalt and an impenetrable fog cut them off from the world. Sleep brings the same nightmare to each of them: masked attackers storming the house, beating them in a frenzy of violence. As exhaustion and fever blur reality and dream, they begin to suspect the vision is not theirs alone—but a message from the place itself.

On a quiet April morning in Bologna, a stuffed cat perched on a broken record player suddenly blinks, stretches, and climbs down. In front of two astonished witnesses — a Sardinian tavern keeper and an environmental warden with a shared past — the feline leaps from chair to bar, licks the tap, then vanishes through a window. What follows is a surreal chase across the city: parks, arcades, the station, Piazza Maggiore, until the cat slips into a convent.

In a crowded train station, she finds a lost four-year-old girl. No parents. No name. No one looking for her. What starts as a moment of pity becomes the turning point of Lisa's life. As she takes in the child she names Nancy, Lisa is forced to confront everything she thought she knew about love, patience, and what a family is supposed to look like. Nancy struggles to express herself in words, but somehow, she understands Lisa's pain better than anyone ever has.

Life took her on an unexpected rollercoaster of pain, heartbreak, and challenges that tested her in ways she never thought possible. Yet, instead of breaking, she chose to stay strong and face every obstacle with courage. Through her struggles, she discovered her true capabilities, inner strength, and self-worth. Her painful journey became the path that led her to transformation, helping her realize her full potential and eventually guiding her toward the soulmate who truly deserved her.