Rene Volpi

Joined May 2023

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I'm from Italy and write every day. Being a storyteller by nature, I've entertained (and annoyed) people with my “experiments” since I was a child, showing everyone my primitive drawings, doodles, and poems. Still do! Leave me a comment! :)

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Dogs Truly Are Our Guardian Angels. Top Story - October 2023.
My dog is driving me crazy. He thinks he’s the boss, no questions asked. All I want to do is eat in peace, but nooooo!
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Journal
Fall. The Season Without the Need for Words
Summer is over And fall has finally arrived Time for poets, Bohemians and troubadours Time to look at our surroundings
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Poets
The Trouble With PTSD...and What I Did To Conquer It
I didn’t think I was affected by it. I thought I was too strong to allow it to get me down. I believed, foolishly, that only soldiers who saw battle or civilians who experienced psychosis were the only ones who would get it. Not me.
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Humans
The Young Man in the Fast Car and the Old Lady Crossing the Road
A young man stopped his car inches from this old lady and honking like his life depended on it, berated her for taking too long to cross the road, scaring the poor woman to death.
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Humans
The Bullfighter Who Couldn't Face the Bull
My eyes were hurting with that full sun pounding the arena. That didn't help since it reflected even more light. People were yelling and screaming at me from all sides.
By Rene Volpi 2 years ago in Fiction
Here We Go. Another Boring Bio
1. I'm Rene. This is the first time I've ever written a bio. 🤔 Italo-Argentine and never lost the accent, some say it's better that I haven't.
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in Confessions
George Orwell's 1984
The life and times in Oceania were unsustainable and yet, the people complied out of fear of the unknown. The rats' phobia wasn't the only thing that terrified Winston, but it was the most feared.
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in BookClub
Time to Catch but Not Release. Content Warning.
The Critique challenge is closed but since the idea is still floating in my head, I'll post it for one and for all. Good thing is, I'm not restricted to 50 words. :)
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in History
Humans vs. Neanderthals. An Impossible situation
The brutal blizzard made it impossible to move. It was the waiting game, again. Pursuers and pursued stuck by the same law of nature. The main objective was
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in Poets
This is Not the Kind of Work I signed Up for, Ever.
They sweat non-stop under the hot sun and the suffering is atrocious. The host country had taken away all of their passports when they arrived --under contract-- to work on whatever labor they were directed to do.
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in Journal
The Beauty and The Beast
~~o~~ Petrus loves his life in Tenerife. He enjoys his house in the country, he adores his wife and his 7 children are the apple of his eye.
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in Fiction
We Had a Deal
We made a deal. The deal was that we would love each other forever. That our love would never fade. Because it couldn't.
By Rene Volpi 3 years ago in Poets

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Dogs Truly Are Our Guardian Angels. Top Story - October 2023.

Fall. The Season Without the Need for Words

The Trouble With PTSD...and What I Did To Conquer It

The Young Man in the Fast Car and the Old Lady Crossing the Road

The Bullfighter Who Couldn't Face the Bull

Here We Go. Another Boring Bio

George Orwell's 1984

Time to Catch but Not Release. Content Warning.

Humans vs. Neanderthals. An Impossible situation

This is Not the Kind of Work I signed Up for, Ever.

The Beauty and The Beast

We Had a Deal

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