It was a dark and stormy night. God, stormy, let's just say it had just started to drizzle. In the castle of the Andainlech family it was not yet Andainlech's time. In the bass room, where usually only that musical instrument was played, no one was playing (I screwed you, huh?), On the contrary, they were all already a little played. Lord Andainlech's old mother, affectionately called Zombie, was playing cards with the children, Giuanin and Jennar, of the aforementioned Lord, the man of the house, not that the children were gay, but it is so said and therefore readers are kindly requested. not to intervene to correct the autor...

Alfonso is a 27-year-old young man who lives alone in his house in the famous metropolis of La Spezia, a Ligurian town that to call a metropolis would certainly be excessive: that's why we did it. Alfonso is currently dusting off the attic, but the box he found is really heavy to move. What's happening ?! The crate is moving! And here is a deep and gloomy voice that rises from the chest: "Is it permitted, Sor Alfonso?". Alfonso finally opens the box and full of wonder sees a great old man come out without a hair on his head, with a very long beard, full of wrinkles and signs of advanced age. "Who are you, Enzo Biagi?" Says Alfonso...

Joey was born 25 years ago in a remote village of the Wild West: his father could be anyone, in fact his mother was a woman of very easy morals. His mother, on the other hand, had died during childbirth due to the too much violence with which he had decided to come into the world. He, however, had grown up very well by himself, from the earliest years of his life: the name Joey had chosen himself at the age of 7, baptizing himself with a mug of beer (his first hangover... good times... ). They gave him the nickname Tamburo when he was 15, because the drum was the only thing he could hit without screaming for mercy. He had arrived in the P...

In the tribe of the stupid Blackbirds, the wild Indians, rough and unkempt like some ugly thugs who meet in discos on Saturday nights, there is an air of tension these days: and it is not the usual breeze that usually blows from North-South-West-East (and sometimes even from the center), this is really true tension, like the one you feel, while still suckling, the first days of kindergarten, just to avoid making the idea! The great leader, Merlo Un Pelo Più Intelligente, has in fact announced to the tribe of blackbirds that, finally, after numerous seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades and centuries, the message of ...

Ciriaco lives in a hole under the ground, 13 cm-sq. in Murcio, a small village in the province of Grosseto. He is a centipede, married to a worm named Johanna, for two long (for those who are married very long) years. Ciriaco is 7 years old (like 35 for a man) and lives under the garden of the Spacchi family, who don't know him, his wife, or their creeping existence. It is 10 am on 21 July 1987, a chiaroscuro and insignificant day in itself but full of profound uselessness when seen in the context of something. Ciriaco got up an hour ago and immediately came to the kitchen to have his carrot suck (which consists of sucking a carrot th...

Albachiara, a fancy girl, lives in a big house in the Mexican prairie, that is the area of ​​the prairie where dogs have been specially placed by the Swiss guard, or rather, Mexican. Seven midgets live with Albachiara, named Babbolo, Mongolo, Dormolo, Dottolo, Stressolo, Picciolo and Eccolo. But in Mexico there also lives an evil witch, Melinda, with her dwarf Fruttolo. The witch Melinda is crazy for Vacca Rossi, a bold young man (despite his ambiguous name) who goes around those pleasant places with his horse called Porsche. Vacca, however, is in love, reciprocated, with the beautiful (so to speak) Albachiara, so much so that he claims t...

In the world there are few great persons and many small persons: therefore the number of persons is inversely proportional to their size. Wealth can have many meanings, however poverty cannot. The opportunity makes the man a thief, but if the man in question is really a thief, he will find the opportunity anyway. Those who do it for themselves do for three, but could also ask the other two work and get less tired. The honest man in the kingdom of heaven will be appreciated much more than the one who makes him suffer, but in the meantime on earth he is undermined. Many say that love is the feeling that binds two human beings: others inste...

Was it really supposed to happen to me ? a room that was closed from the inside? Couldn't it be, I don't know, open from the inside? ". This thought Hercule Potit, commissioner of the police department of Le Havre, France. The case they had put him in the morning was truly terrible: a decrepit old man poisoned by a killer ice cream's cone (even ice cream can't be trusted these days), in a room locked from the inside. He, Potit, had seen a lot of detective movies about a murder in a room that was locked from the inside, only he didn't remember how the detectives solved that problem. On the other hand, anyone could have ...

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