03 · Fiction & translation
Voice and range
Short stories, monologues, and a poem in translation: the creative side of the same attention to language.
Short story · Chapter one
August Untamed
≈ 2,250 words
The opening chapter of a story narrated by a young Englishman torn between a cold, proper home and the Mediterranean summers that made him feel alive.
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Short story
Undusted Bookshelves
≈ 1,600 words
A carer slowly learns that her patient’s story of a bookshop was never a trick, and what that means for how she sees the woman and her family.
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Monologue
Callas
≈ 1,100 words
A restless first-person piece sparked by an evening at the opera, circling talent, doubt, and the fear of a voice that never finds its vessel.
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Prose portrait
Mother
≈ 1,100 words
A mother seen through coffee, smoke, and silence: tender, unsparing, and told in close first person.
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Flash fiction
Francesca
≈ 700 words
An old woman watches a church lose its doors and measures her own usefulness against it.
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Poetry translation · Georgian → English
Zviad Ratiani’s “Negative, after 20 Years”
Translation of a Georgian poem
An English rendering of a poem about silence, complicity, and memory. Because the original is another poet’s work, the full text is shared on request.
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