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    Halo
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    Halo

    By Francesco Falconi

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    An original weird short story by Francesco Falconi. From a tribute to Kafka's Metamorphosis, with three flashbacks, an ironic and sharp point of view will tell the story of a family drama and a redemption. Until the last line, when you will discover the identity of the narrator.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateJan 9, 2017
    ISBN9781507152379
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      Halo - Francesco Falconi

      I hate the dark.

      I hate the silence.

      I hate the dust.

      Well, today is the typical day when my hatred pours like lava, destroying all the world around me.

      I remember nothing about yesterday, about two days ago, about what happened last week.

      Dark, just damned dark.

      Something is wrong. I try to move my legs, I shudder. Because not only two feet respond to my command. I count them, beating them to the ground one by one. They are eight.

      I see a ray of light in the distance. I hear muffled voices. I notice a narrow slit on the floor, not far from me. Below, I glimpse a chasm that makes me dizzy. Where the hell am I?

      Right, I have to get closer to understand it better. With eight legs, it should be easy. I try then to synchronize them. First, second, third. How many are left? It’s the fifth leg that fools me, because it exceeds the fourth one and trips the sixth one. The seventh one is already lying on the ground; the eighth one keeps her company. The sum leads to an embarrassing result: balance to hell and I fall in the empty space.

      Fuck it.

      I scream. Or

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