Categoría: Gobblers
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(Sir) Roger Casement by Luisa Zambrotta
Roger Casement’s grave. The capstone reads “Roger Casement, who died for the sake of Ireland, 3rd August 1916”. On 22 July 1916 George Bernard Shaw’s letter protesting the execution of Sir Roger Casement was published in the “Manchester Guardian”. The playwright had already sent that letter to “The Times” newspaper,…
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Azoth’s Daughter by Tony Ashenden
When your eyes hook to the morning star still and shining, free from tears; sleep warm lungs slake the cold unfeeling air. Untold thoughts of troubled dreams disperse and the earth untrammelled by your feet awakes. And as your senses find their root in earth The pretence of…
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To-do List of Lady Dracula by Munmun Samanta
A page from Lady Vladimira’s Journal Vol. CCCXLII Lady Vladimira’s Nightly Journal Vol. CCCXLII, Est. 740 A.D. Personal & Confidential: Trespassers Will Be Drained Friday: 13. Anno Domini 1889· Transylvania Standard Time The night is young. The village is sleeping. And Lady Vladimira Rosalind Carmilla von Duskmore, third daughter of…
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We Should Have Seen It Coming by Lynn White
To begin with the dark parts were small tiny black squares in the brightness, we should have seen it growing recognised its full potential noticed the blurred edges allowing it to creep outwards imperceptibly almost invisibly. And now there’s hardly a space between the black parts and little space for…
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Wherever you are by Susana Cabaço
Things may not always be perfect, but, ultimately, they truly never are. It’s life with all its nuances and shades, with all its challenges and even storms. Still, while in the midst of your trials, make sure you are not forgetting to acknowledge the calm, the beauty, and the goodness…
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Cause of Death written November 12, 2011 by julie Sheppard
A blessing has come from having the condensation line bust in my ceiling. Yes the mess that came from water pouring from my ceiling into my living room created a big mess. Which also meant that there were a lot of things I had to temporarily move, and the mess…
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Digital Brain Queries — 01: God by J. Ré Crivello
Note: Queries are made to the AI built on 5,000 published articles by J. Ré. You can ask at this link: https://cerebrojuanrecrivello.netlify.app/#1_WIKI%2FHome.md The question of God runs through the work of Juan Re Crivello more as an open wound than as a resolved dogma. A reader of the Bible since…
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Conversations with My Cat — 11 The Black Tulip by J. Ré Crivello
“Mr. President: The black tulip will open in about ten minutes. As soon as it opens, I will send a messenger to beg you to come and fetch it in person from the fortress of Loevestein. I am the daughter of the jailer Gryphus, almost as much a prisoner as…
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To Chat —or Learn Languages by J. Ré Crivello
“The prostitutes on the second deck were desperate, fixing their nails, combing their hair, lying in the sun like lizards. The students came down from first deck, hung around the women, and ended up chatting, fraternizing.” (p. 227, Jorge Amado, The Old Sailors) To chat! This phrase is truly pre-technological.…
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What Harm Could It Do by Gerald Yelle
It’s the place I’m from and I feel like I’ve been here too long. Sometimes I think it keeps me from finding something real –someone who’ll stick around anyway. Nobody else wants to be in this neck of the woods any longer than they have to. If they ever look…
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Experiences: Having Lived an NDE by J Ré Crivello
“It is not necessary to be run over by a truck or suffer a heart attack for an increase in consciousness or spirituality to occur, for materialistic worries to decrease, and for a more loving and peaceful temperament to be acquired.” (p. 73, Brian Weiss, Through Time) Spiritual experiences surround…
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Writing like a Rushing, Free-Flowing River: A Conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara about We Are Green and Trembling
by Juan Camilo Rincón by Latl We spoke with the latest winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature (alongside Robin Myers) and of the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona for Spanish-language literature in 2024, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, about her book Las niñas del naranjel (Penguin Random House, translated as…
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Trash and Treasure by Rae Cod
Martin knew the saying; once man’s trash is another’s treasure, but it always amazed him the items that people discarded. Dropping it at the charity shop made them feel better about it, but make no mistake, if all the charity shops closed tomorrow it would be on the rubbish heap.…
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One more year by Miriam Costa
Submerge! Now everything here moves quietly. There are no more reasons to cryNor missed phone calls!I pointed the knife,Then I mercilessly removed a piece of my heart. ( Gave it to you )I toppled pastsThus, to the most resentful I gave them some hope. Submerge! My animalistic reaction has no…
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The Heart of Eternity by Daniela Torpicean
The same sun shines on uswe look atthe same moon, the same starsthe same windwhat caresses nowmy rebellious hair,reaches your soul. We are presentfor an eternityin a single endless moment,of eternity. Do you not feel the eternal now,you don’t feel lovewithout limits, without time?Do you not hear the knockof eternity heart,my…
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D-Day by Riya Yadav
The day I didn’t matter what they feel The day I didn’t matter if they heal The day I didn’t matter what they say The day was I reborned in a whole new way The night that made me realise who I am The nights that made me do what…
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