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Ristorante Alte Amore My Fiction Setting

Ristorante "Former or Old Love" was the setting in the short story "Arrivederla." These are the two Roman locations which served as the inspiration for Ristorante Alte Amore:  Ristorante Checco dello Scapicollo and Ristorante Cecilia Metella

http://www.checcoscapicollo.it/
http://www.ceciliametella.it/

Fiumicino, Italy to Rome, Italy

As the taxi drove from Aeroporti Fiumicino to Rome, we did encounter a flock of sheep and a shepherd on the road.http://www.initaly.com/travel/lomax.htm

Short Story Excerpt The Pacific by Mark Helprin

The entire story hangs on the fourth word from the end; you can search for it and read it. The short story, 5600 words, details a World War II factory worker. Here is part of a paragraph:


Paulette, who worked with an electric arc, never tired of watching this woman adjust her torch.  When she lit it, the flame was white inside but surrounded by a yellow envelope that sent up twisting columns of smoke.  Then she changed the mixture and a plug of intense white appeared at the end of the torch, in the center of a small orange flare.  When finally she got her neutral flame—with a tighter white plug, a colorless core, and a sapphire-blue casing—she lowered her mask and bent over the work.

Arrivederla My Latest Short Story

Here is the link. The goal was to craft a short story that ended on one word.


Arrivederla http://www.e-stories.org/read-stories.php?&sto=11096

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Rossini Stabat Mater

Handsome.

The Book I Brought Home

At a contest last month I unwrapped a mystery book in a plain paper wrapper. In the very last paragraph on the back dust cover, I read the author is someone whose main occupation is publishing books on opera. Meant to be mine.