Flush

by Francesco Verso, Luca Biada (Illustrator), Georgia Emma Gili (Translator)

There's a new drug around, the mysterious Flush, whose effects are very controversial.
Try it and everything will "sound" differently.

Flush is a short fiction, a striking piece of "flash fiction", to be read at full throttle, like you would do with a Trance sound track pushed up to 150 rpm.

Flush is also a crossmedia project (www.flush.zone) from Future Fiction Factory: born from a short story by Francesco Verso, it became an audiobook for L.A. CASE Production and then it transformed itself into an audio-video installation thanks to New Media Agency BCAA.

Francesco Verso personal Awards:
2004 – Finalist at Urania Mondadori Award with Antidoti Umani
2009 – Winner of Urania Mondadori with e-Doll – The Smilemaker
2013 – Winner of Odyssey Award by Delos Books with Livid
2013 – Special Recommendation at Robot Award for Il Livello dell’Assassino
2014 – Winner of Cassiopea Award for Livid
2014 – Winner of Premio Italia for best SF novel with Livid

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2010

About the author

Francesco Verso (Bologna, 1973) is a multiple-award Science Fiction writer and editor. He has published: Antidoti umani, e-Doll, Nexhuman, Bloodbusters, Futurespotting and I camminatori (made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land). Nexhuman and Bloodbusters have been published in Italy, US, UK and China. I camminatori will be published by Flame Tree Press as The Roamers in Spring 2023. He works as editor of Future Fiction, scouting and translating the best SF from 12 languages and more than 30 countries. He’s the Honorary Director of the Fishing Fortress SF Academy of Chongqing. He may be found online at www.futurefiction.org.

Reviews

[Dorian Hawkmoon · Rating 4 out of 5]

In un mondo prigioniero del rumore, quale miglior droga del silenzio assoluto?

[Artur Coelho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Conto cyberpunk, que pega na iconografia do género - tecnologia, submundos urbanos e substâncias ilegais, e nos conta uma história sobre drogas. Uma altamente aditiva, que um homem decide experimentar. Fica surpreendido quando em vez de comprimidos ou seringas, lhe é vendida num par de auscultadores. E quando a experimenta, percebe. No ruído incessante da sociedade urbana, a alienação pelo silêncio é uma droga poderosa.

[Francesca Giardiello · Rating 2 out of 5]

Racconto interessante ma che si perde dietro a paroloni che fanno distaccare il lettore dal curioso mondo da lui creato.

Il vero problema è che non porta da nessuna parte se non nella descrizione dell'acquisto, dell'assunzione e di cosa accade nel mentre una persona si "droga" di silenzio in un mondo incessantemente rumoroso. Niente emozione, niente sorpresa, niente morale.