Keep Cool

by Fabio F. Centamore

Dear reader, here I collected only few and less significant flash stories. I wrote them during a really bad winter, rich of problems and strange mishaps. I could tell you about that time I had to run to a small cemetery in the middle of a rainstorm, loosing cause the rain my old netbook with all my drafted stories inside. Or maybe I could tell you about that other time, when my town was completely blacked out freezing entirely my hard disk (and, of course, everything I had inside it). But here the point is that all the stories you will find in this little collection were rejected. Sure, they were rejected by really important and competent editors, from great magazines like “Fantasy and Science Fiction”, or “Asimov's”, or “Clarkesworld”. So really you don't need to stop here and read them. But, if you want really do this, I'll be sincerely pleased, for you... and for me.

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2015

About the author

Fabio F. Centamore was born in Italy, eastern Sicily, between Catania and Syracuse. He took a strong interest on comics, fantastic and science fiction world during his studies at Pisa University. Following this new interest, he started to contribute with a local fanzine dedicated to comics world. In the same period (1994-'96) he wrote novels and tales for several Sci-Fi literary prizes: "Urania" prize (1994 and '95), "Courmaieur" prize (1994, '95 and '96). In 2009 he sold his first tales anthology: Alle Sett'Albe. His first novel appeared in 2010: L'Origine. Between 2011 and 2012 some of his short tales contributed to several anthologies. His last tales collection book, Luna Park (2013), is a compilation of different genres, from horror to mystery and science fiction. From 2014 he works also as translator. He translated Robert Silverberg (The Emperor, the Maula and Liontime at Timbuctoo), Robert Reed (Savior, Camouflage). Currently he contributes also as reviewer with several Italian blogzine (Mangialibri, Cronache di un Sole Lontano and True Science Fantasy). His last Italian work is Lotto 117 (2014), he sold his first English work (The Latest One) to Mike Resnick's “Galaxy's Edge Magazine”.