Three horror tales and one flash-fiction story.
1) Big Brother is on my floor What if your house spy-hole turned into a black hole sucking out all your free will?
2) The Ouija board You really should NOT have opened that door. You handed a window on our world to the Jinn on a silver platter. Who will be safe from now on?
3) Ring around the rosie Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down! The ex-asylum for children in Aguscello, Italy, has been abandoned for forty years. Who is still playing on the carousel inside the courtyard?
4) Master & slave There'll come a day when the one overpowers the other. Who will get to prevail?
Germano Dalcielo is also the author of
Jesus: A hell of a secret
Darkness, come on in: The Box Set
About the Author: Germano Dalcielo is 35 years old. He is Italian from La Spezia, on the Gulf of Poets. He has been writing since he was thirteen, especially thriller novels and spy stories.
In October 2008, he published "Il gene dell'azzardo", a short autobiography about his gambling addiction in 2000-2006. There is now a second edition of this book titled "Il giocatore - Il virus dell'azzardo". Unfortunately, it is only available in Italian. In 2010, he published the religious thriller "Jesus: a hell of a secret" (aka "The Sinner"), ranking among the Top 100 best sellers in the Italian Kindle store for three months in a row. In October 2011, he wrote a series of weird tales and ghost stories, "Lettere dal buio", also available in English as "Darkness, come on in...".
Writing is his life, it makes him feel happy and complete. It dignifies him. When he writes, he feels like he is not alone.
Elvio Bongorino is the pen name of a young female debut author who would rather stay anonymous.