Vi tiravamo sassi    by Flavio Toccafondi
Price: Free! 36820 words. Language: Italian. Published by smith&laforgue indipendent press  on February 19, 2013. Fiction » Literary collections » European / Italian.
Morilles, cittadina di provincia. La storia di El e quella di un gruppo di amici impegnati nella lotta per non perdere il posto di lavoro; la storia di un amore a distanza, di un amore distante e di una distanza dall’amore.

Argos and His Master    by Italo Svevo
Price: $1.25 USD. 9370 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on August 28, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
"Life is this way: first you have to beg for things and then you have to growl to keep them." Argos's master has been sent to the mountains for his health. Bored, he resolves to teach his hunting dog to talk. The experiment fails, but he himself--the more advanced animal--manages to learn Argos's language.

Death    by Italo Svevo
Price: $0.99 USD. 6050 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on August 27, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Roberto and his wife have just dropped off their children at the station and are now alone with each other in their suddenly quiet house. This brief tale, left unfinished, is one of Svevo's most terrifying.

The Rosary    by Federico De Roberto
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on July 21, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » European / Italian.
Between prayers, as she says the rosary ("forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us"), an old woman refuses to pardon her newly widowed and destitute daughter.

The Beautiful Death    by Federico De Roberto
Price: $1.90 USD. 10330 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on March 8, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
The captain of the "Siracusa" has received orders to sail for Tangiers, where rebels have seized the Italian consulate. The blue peter is hoisted, and the sirens announcing the ship's departure echo off of the hills above Livorno. From all over the city, seamen and officers begin returning aboard--all of them, that is, but the junior lieutenant Luigi Carleoni, the ship captain's son.