The short story below is based on the actual Mattioli Brother’s Bakery that was established by my paternal grandfather and his brothers circa 1920. Although I never met my grandfather, I heard stories of him from my father. This story is
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The following story is about my maternal grandparents who emigrated from Italy in their early teen years and met in Philadelphia while tailoring, the occupation they shared. Although this is about real people and based on some real events, such
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The Sane Ones: free short fiction
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Short Stories | 0 commentsA man stood reading a book over another man’s shoulder at one of the tables in the library like it was a perfectly natural thing to do. When the sitting man turned around to ask the standing man what he was doing, the latter said they should
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Something He Could See Himself In: free short fiction
Posted by Grace Mattioli in Short Stories | 0 commentsSomething He Could See Himself In The empty spot on the bottom of Tattoo Tommy’s back was the only tattooless spot on his body, minus his face and head. It lived right below a tattoo of Mary that looked like one of those statues people
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I hope you enjoy this free short story that I wrote a while back. For those of you who read “The Bird that Sang in Color,” you’ll see many similarities. Blue Suede Clogs Atlantic City was only twenty miles away but the
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