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    Journey Within a Story
    Journey Within a Story
    Journey Within a Story
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    Journey Within a Story

    By Giovanni Venturi

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    In a small library no one ever seems to visit in the middle of nowhere, a young boy continues reading books. Perhaps these books hold the answers to all of the questions of his life?

    In 14 short chapters, this ebook will take you on a journey of discovery. Strange events follow Daniele through the library and beyond, as the young boy tries to uncover a secret he has since forgotten. Doors open and close, pages turn by themselves, strawberries grow in the snow… amid this surreal landscape, will Daniele find the answers he needs before returning to his ordinary life?

    This short story consists of approximately 6000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGiovanni Venturi
    Release dateDec 4, 2013
    ISBN9788890755934
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      Journey Within a Story - Giovanni Venturi

      Journey within a Story

      Giovanni Venturi

      Journey within

      a Story

      ©2013 Giovanni Venturi

      cover image: ©Whitestep | Dreamstime.com

      images inside the ebook: ©Giovanni Venturi

      translation by Andrea Pakieser

      http://giovanniventuri.wordpress.com/

      eISBN: 978-88-907559-3-4

      First ebook edition: December 2013

      Publisher: Giovanni Venturi

      ebook made by Make your e-book by Giovanni Venturi

      Text protected by Primo Autore.

      Also available as print edition with ISBN: 978-1494275747

      Available also in Italian as ebook with eISBN: 978-88-907559-1-0 and print edition with ISBN: 978-1493583638

      This ebook includes the font Gentium Basic (available from: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Gentium-Basic) released under the license:

      Copyright (c) 2003-2008 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/),

      with Reserved Font Names Gentium and SIL.

      This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

      The license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

      This story is a work of fiction. Characters and events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously to lend a sense of realism to the narrative. Any resemblance to actual events, matters, places, living or deceased people, is purely coincidental.

      In a small library no one

      ever seems to visit in the

      middle of nowhere, a young

      boy continues reading books.

      Perhaps these books hold

      the answers to all of the

      questions of his life?

      I dedicate this book to

      everyone who still

      manages to let their

      imagination take flight

      while reading a story.

      Journey

      within

      a Story

      A small library in the middle of nowhere

      The room is intensely quiet and dark. There’s just the light of a lamp and a young boy absorbed in reading. Yet again, time has hurried on by, but Daniele didn’t notice, to him it seems as if he just walked through the door a few minutes ago.

      He always borrows the same book.

      He didn’t even need to ask.

      He barely had time to utter Hello to Mr. Alfredo – a lively, slender man about seventy years old – before the man handed him the text. Mr. Alfredo doesn’t even put it back on the shelf anymore. He keeps it on the counter under an envelope with the word Daniele

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