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The Project I Couldn’t Say No to
Celebrating 100 years of Zeno’s Conscience with a new translation No novel captures the sprit of the city of Trieste like Italo Svevo’s masterpiece, La Coscienza di Zeno. I grew up in the city, and walked through the very streets Svevo mentions, sat down to have coffee in the cafes where he sat and discussed literatureContinue reading “The Project I Couldn’t Say No to”
Harmless Beasts
a short story by Peter Palmieri (This story was previously published in The Starship Logs Volume 2: Creatures by Telltale Press – 2020) “Don’t eat too fast,” Mrs. Miller said as she popped the lid off the chicken-and-gravy jar, one of those with a wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked infant on its label. “You’ll get a tummy acheContinue reading “Harmless Beasts”
A Long Stretch of Highway – a short story
by Peter Palmieri This was the Grand Prize winning entry at the 2015 Dallas Medicine+Literature writing contest. The highest praise I received as a doctor came from a steely-eyed, reticent cowboy near the start of my career. He sat in the mommy chair of my exam room, his three-year old daughter squirming on his steadyContinue reading “A Long Stretch of Highway – a short story”
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