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Salvatore Sodano
Recent Publications
"A Call to Arms"
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Two boys, brothers, best friends, soldiers in their own fantasy explore their backyard as if it were a world of its own. Their safe world of imagination suddenly becomes too real as they're met face to face with a feral animal who may or may not break through their rear fence.
Published in "Rue Scribe" Literary Magazine at https://underwoodpress.com/ruescribe/the-small-literature/page/10/
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"The Revisit"
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Thomas, a lonesome widower, decides after years without his beloved, to embark on a trip to the Bahamas where he had honeymooned years before. He is haunted by his past and meets a bartender and a candlemaker who lead him down a strange path of alternate realities where he may be able to relive lost moments.
"Vigo's Shroud"
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An ordinary day at an ordinary barber shop soon seems inordinacy when the barber, Vigo, seems to be on the brink of a violent outbreak.
"Madmen Know Nothing"
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This contest winning short story has smokey overtones of Edgar Allen Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart." A man becomes obsessed with the rumor that a waitress at the bar he works at may have a wooden leg. When the moment obsession turns darkest there is no turning back.
"War with the Magi"
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A lonesome man suffering from a recent breakup cannot find peace in his own apartment as it has been invaded by ants; three in fact. And he has given them names as well as war.
"The Fool"
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This poem indulges on the fulcrum of blissful ignorance. This poem is inspired by Barnett Newman's 'Vir Heroicus Sublimus' painting (link provided).