The Wedding Mass    by Federico De Roberto
Price: $3.00 USD. 39750 words. Published by Fario  on August 27, 2012. Fiction.
The sculptor Lodovico Bertini turns up on a mysterious errand at the school where a friend of his is teaching Greek. He has come, it turns out, to witness the arrival of a passenger liner, aboard which is a man whose imminent return to Italy is throwing Bertini's life into turmoil.

The Rosary    by Federico De Roberto
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Published by Fario  on July 21, 2012. Fiction.
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. Published by Fario  on March 8, 2012. Fiction.
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.