Martha Witt grew up in Hillsborough, North Carolina, the setting of her novel Broken as Things Are. She has cotranslated several Italian classics, including Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV, and translated several others, including Giovanni Verga’s Rustic Chivalry (Italica Press, 2020). She is a professor of English and creative writing at William Paterson University and lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.

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A Short Short Story

by Martha Witt

We’d been arguing. Not much of a surprise, because that’s how we spent the majority of our time. We’d been staying with Fredrik, my brother-in-law, in his villa situated on a ten-acre vineyard just outside Pisa and purchased by his wife, Laili, who could afford to make her beloved husband the gentleman-farmer she so lovingly accused him of wanting to be.

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