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Mezzo (Italian) = Half
Less is more, a collection of flash gems and punchy prose from new and up-coming authors. Mezzo is published three times yearly.
Magazine Sections
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Poetry
- Daniel Eley
- Red Wine
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Short Stories
- Snowglobe
- Blackbirds
- Professor Panini
- Lamb to the Slaughter
- Dry Spell
Current Contests
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A unique new store has opened in town. All it sells are snowglobes. The secret is that something truly wonderful happens with every hundredth snowstorm. 3392 words |
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Questions on life and beyond. A nine-year-old boy befriends his ailing great-aunt and fears losing her. 2004 words |
"Do they think that they have given us great pleasure buy telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?" |
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A meld of mind and machine, perhaps Professor Panini is too clever for his own good. 1194 words |
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Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.
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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
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“A short story is a glance at the miraculous. Joyce used a religious word. He called his stories ‘epiphanies’. A good short story is almost always about a moment of profound realization. Or a hint of that. A quiet bomb.”
~Joseph O’Connor, Dublin 1997
Read this month's stories by clicking on the cover art of the story.
Stories can be read on line, printed or downloaded for reading offline.
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