Today Marilyn could feel better… She lounged on the big bed wrapped in her satin sheets for a long time and finally decided to get up and start her day with her usual morning bath.
In the bathroom mirror she saw herself, a notorious face that humanity had adored for about a hundred and fifty years, and smiled with justifiable smugness.
Kaiti Vasilakou was born in Chania, Crete. She studied Archaeology at the University of Athens and worked as a philologist in secondary education. She lives permanently in Athens.
Her published works include The Temptation of the Hermit Hartmut Limberger (Iolkos, 2008), The Doors (Iolkos, 2010), The Fourth Clone (Aiolos, 2011), My Dear Psychiatrist (Apopeira, 2012), Simon (Mandragoras, 2014), Night Falls Slowly (Mandragoras, 2014), and The Persistent Phenomenon (Apopeira, 2016).
Then she slipped into the bathtub, enjoying the lukewarm water running over her immortal body
Thirteen short stories of fantasy that distract us from the everyday while asking questions: Isn’t it all fantasy after all? Does reality have such possibilities? Is this not the case?