{"id":3873,"date":"2022-02-16T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanopausa.com\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:17:28","slug":"stromboli-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanopausa.com\/en\/stromboli-by-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Stromboli by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote this piece following one of the prompts from the Flash Fiction Festival in 2021. It was selected a few months later for a special Zine published by The Madison Review in partnership with The Berkeley Fiction Review. You can find it on pages 16-17. Here is how it begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stromboli by Night<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we leave the village, headlamps pointing at the ground in front of us, I can smell broom. Even in the darkness, I can picture it: yellow and thick, the way children paint the sun. 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