Stopping just short of his mother’s house Alessandro could see his brother Santo had not arrived yet. The house was a three-storey terraced home just off of a small piazza. Alessandro had not visited for over a year and was surprised at the appearance of the property. The shabby, green wooden shutters were peeling in…
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Peace at Last by Anna Tupling
I hate Tuesdays! Tuesday is the day we have P.E. at school and also the day that we have to visit grandpa in the home. I don’t like it in the home, the people are all old and don’t really know that you are there… and it smells. Mama makes us go, she says it…
Ignorance of Nature’s Supremacy by Emma Bate
Hidden away in Northern Italy, a quaint alpine village inhabited the Piave Valley. For centuries Longarone had been left undisturbed, until one fatal night on 9th October 1963 where man’s thirst for technological power and economic growth led to the destruction and devastation of entire villages and more than 2000 of their residents. The dam…