Late-night rejection! A classic in Gothic fiction even if it doesn’t intend to be in that genre, I couldn’t not include this in our collection on Patreon, since I pay homage to its turning point: “the deck is marked by scratches, powerful, heavy scratches three inches apart like claw prints of a gigantic hound.” The […]
Another rejection, another batch of pages for my Patrons to read, and this time it’s an original translation of two short, magical tales by Grazia Deledda. Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist, born on September 27, 1871, in Nuoro, Sardinia, and the only Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. She grew up […]
Who’s Alexander Selkirk, you ask? Well, he’s Robinson Crusoe in real life. Sort of. Born in Scotland in 1676, Selkirk had joined a buccaneering expedition to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1703, and he found himself embarked on a ship called Cinque Ports, captained by Thomas Stradling. When the […]