Tuesday 9 August 2022

At the Breakfast Table by Defne Suman


At the Breakfast Table

by Defne Suman

Translated by Betsy Göksel

Stories are never forgotten, Sadik, they merely stay silent inside us, that’s all. The time comes, some pressure is exerted, the passages open, and the past flows into the present.

Monday 9 May 2022

Verklärte Nacht - a short story in Maltese

Verklärte Nacht

I occasionally feature on this blog some of my writings in Maltese... such as this short story. Verklärte Nacht was first published on the Facebook page of the literary organisation Għaqda tal-Malti - Universita' after a Valentine's Day call for writings on the theme of love.  It is a ghost story of sorts, whose protagonist is haunted by the spirit of his ex-lover who, in a departure from the tropes of the genre, is still very much alive…  The illustration is by Pascal Campion whose  contemporary pop-inspired works I really love.

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