© 2010 George Zarkadakis

Irekoussa: stories on the web

This blog of short stories - or instances of short stories - is an open-ended investigation of the aftermath of the novel Archipelago Republic. Following the vanishing of Irekoussa from the Aegean Sea, a mission for its re-discovery is launched in a time-less and space-less digital universe. The mission reports by haphazardly posting parables, narratives of dreams, stories and reflections from the real and the unreal.

SHORT STORIES

George Zarkadakis is a frequent contributor of short stories to newspapers and magazines. He has published a collection of short stories under the title “The day America disappeared”. Stories include:

 

A TV celebrity joins forces with a religious cult leader to change Earth’s climate

 

Two children discover the meaning of friendship through the strange inventions of a visitor from Venus

 

A musician learns the sound of love from a lost desert tribe

 

A Black Hole mingles up time and history in Athens

 

A young journalist falls in love with a super hero

 

In a magical city of the Tropics two very unlikely lovers come together

 

An advertising executive conspires against his business partner for the sake of a woman, and makes a strange bet

 

A Persian alchemist in Samarkand attempts to calculate the larger number possible, while the Mongols advance

 

A distant descendant of the writer takes part in a dangerous game, and discovers literature

 

A passing angel steals the dream of the last person on Earth