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Not Quite Real

Silvio Castelletti

Suspended Fictions

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The Presence

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I saw Maria for the last time in 1988, or perhaps it was 1989. Yes, it was 1989, the year of my septoplasty, when, in early November, after years of nasal respiratory difficulties that kept me up a...

5 months ago
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diaries, uninterrupted #3

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so for some time I stared at the blank ceiling, blank only because I know it is blank, as it was the middle of the...

a year ago
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Unsent Letters #38

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Dear S.,

Last week, in the midst of a million boxes and an army of wandering movers and a thousand decisions to make and a hundred inconveniences and requests to use the bath...

a year ago
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diaries, uninterrupted #2

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Thursday, March 13, 2025. There are people who never think about the vastness of the universe and how every single one of us is but a speck of dust whose life lasts a fra...

a year ago
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Unsent Letters #37

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Dear B.,

These days I have little time to write and, perhaps more importantly, to read. So I’ll be brief. I wanted to tell you that we’re selling the big red family house. You sp...

a year ago
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