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Micro (one-minute stories)

M. Cristina Marras

About one minute. That’s all it takes to create a world. MIcro tells short, exciting, and sometimes strange stories with unexpected twists. Each episode shows a different aspect of human nature: sometimes sad, sometimes ridiculous, often told by unreliable narrators. Always unexpected.

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15. Kennedy

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/06/03

Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTI remember exactly the day Kennedy was shot. My mother was wearing a black twin-set of jumpers, it was probably spring, or autumn, and we were watching television, and my mother was crying. I wasn’t even born the day that Kennedy was shot, but this memory is so vivid in my mind, that I really believe it to be true. Now I know, it wasn’t Kennedy my mother was

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14. Airport

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/05/27

You loved each other for a month, then he had to fly back to Melbourne. In days when you could only write letters and, very very rarely, place extra-continental phone calls, finally seeing each other was scary. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTThe flight to Melbourne has been very long. She knew it in advance, but still, she feels exhausted and overwhelmed with fears, sensations and curiosity. It has been three months since she last saw him. It’s early nineties, there is no internet yet

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13. Hands

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/05/20

When she travels alone on a tram, sometimes she is taken by a sudden notion.A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTI envy all those women sitting together on trams, mothers and daughters, pushing prams and carrying bags, laughing and talking secrets. We never shared secrets, my mother and I, but I am living abroad and I miss her nevertheless. I see her in her best dress, walking beside me, the handbag crossed over her chest, silver hair and wrinkles. I think my mother is proud of me, somehow,

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12. Flat

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/05/13

When I moved from Melbourne to Italy I was faced with a difficult decision: take my cat Ombra with me, submitting her to a gruelling 26-hour flight and forcing her to live in a flat, or entrust her to my dear friends who offered to give Ombra love, care and a huge garden with trees and sheds and bush. It was one of the most difficult decisions I had to make, but I knew that it was right to put aside my selfish love and to allow Ombra to live her feline life. (I will never thank you enough for

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11. Delivery

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/05/06

I met Amelia at an Italian feminist group in Berlin: young Italian women having the time of their lives free from families and judgments. Amelia came from Rome and arrived without a word of German but with a huge belly that she flaunted like a flag. We met once a week and laughed, run, danced, smoked and drank until the early hours. We had known each other just for a few months when Amelia asked me to accompany her to the clinic to help her with the language. A micro narration in a minute or

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10. Expat

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/04/29

The word 'expat' brings to mind lattes, laptops and wi-fi. But that's not the full story. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTWhite, western, educated, privileged people. I mean, as a woman I am a little less privileged, but still – I cannot complain. There is a name to describe people like me, we are not migrants, we are expats. Sounds so much better, don’t you agree? By saying ‘expat’ you do not envisage war, famine, political unrest. No, you imagine us in suburban cafes, laptop and

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9. (East) Berlin

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/04/22

Walking through East Berlin was never just a stroll, before the Wall came down. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTBack then I only had this... feeling, something was different but I didn’t know what. It was the colours, a lack of colours on the streets like you only see in a black and white movie. I know it now, crossing Alexander Platz and squinting my eyes and trying to remember how it was before, I mean, it is still kind of sad, the roads are always too wide, well, of course I

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8. Instructions

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/04/15

There are unwritten rules that people are supposed to know without anyone ever telling them what they are and how they work. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTI’m sorry. I am really sorry. I didn’t mean to. I don’t know, it would be great if there were an instruction manual that they give you when you migrate to a new country, you know, just a page, something, with all the rules that you are supposed to know when you arrive to a new place. Not the official stuff, but the unwritten rules,

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7. Braunau

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/04/08

I arrived at Braunau that I had just graduated with a thesis on German exile literature during the twelve years of the dictatorship, so you can appreciate my curiosity. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTIt’s raining. It must be around 11am. I’m hiding inside the sleeping bag, inside the tent, listening. It has been raining since I arrived here, last night, and I still haven’t been able to go outside to look around. I am in Braunau. I have been thinking about it all night, wondering what

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6. Amplifier

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/04/01

Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place. A very small narration, hardly a story. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTThere is an old amplifier in my grandmother’s backyard. I’ve asked, but nobody knows how it ended up there. My grandmother’s backyard is not a place where you would expect to find an amplifier. Hens live inside it. In the backyard. I spent part of my childhood contemplating the dark object. In my memory, it has always been there. I realize now that

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5. Charitable

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/03/25

Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.(If you'd like a longer version, here you can read it https://addressapproximate.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/the-good-italian-women/comment-page-1/#comment-42)TRANSCRIPT“We are from Nigeria” answers the mother politely, but the pious women aren’t listening all taken by the beautiful baby, passed from hand to hand like a doll.” How cute!”, “Like chocolate!”, “Oh, just the

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4. Bug

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/03/18

True story, it happened to me in Goa, while living in a fisher's hut in Calangute. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTSomewhere I read that they can smell your fear just like dogs, and that they are attracted by your fear, and that they come to punish you. Well, maybe the bit about punishment wasn't in the article, and I don't know whether they have a sense of smell. But then, how do we explain that I seem to be the only one that notices them, eh? Well, I wake up at night and I see a

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3. Childhood

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/03/11

When adults use children as a pawn. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTShe has given me a letter. To give him. And she wants me to ask him why he doesn’t sleep home any more. I don’t want to. But if I tell her so, she will be angry with me. And cry again. I am scared. He doesn’t hit me. But I know that he doesn’t want the letter, and doesn’t want me to ask him. I don’t know what is happening. I want to stay alone, or at school. I don’t remember when it started. I am sure: it wasn’t like

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2. War

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/03/04

This is a true story. My dear friend M. told this to me one day in the office, at lunch time, and it has been haunting me since. Thank you M. for giving me permission to share. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTThe soldiers came at lunchtime.My mother was preparing soup. It all happened so fast. She didn’t have the time to turn off the stove. We were terrified. We ran from the back door, just like that, as we were.The journey was... we survived. Now we live in a different country, we

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1. Drowning

Micro (one-minute stories) ·

2022/02/25

You know how they say that your life flashes in front of your eyes? Well, that's not always the case. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTDon't believe it when they say that if you're drowning, you see your life flashing in front of your eyes. I'm telling you, because I'm there, my body floats uselessly, carried up and down by a desperate desire not to die. And in my eyes, in my thoughts, there is not my first kiss. My graduation, the birth of my son. Not even the face of the man for whom

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