As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks. Since her roommate is gone, her apartment is filthy, and the flies seem to regenerate in every corner of the...
The Flies
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Rachele Salvini
Rachele Salvini is an Italian woman based in the US. She spent most of her life in Italy, and she writes both in English and Italian. Her work in English has been published in Prairie Schooner, StorySouth, Monkeybicycle, Moon City Review, and others. She currently lives in Pennsylvania, where she is the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, and she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University.