What a new year’s eve Mr Nilai!
That new year’s eve it occurred to Mr Nilai how did it come that he got so old. Couldn’t grasp the fact that truly himself, that since from an early age had everything under control, suddenly was so...
View ArticleThe cat that was running the world
Mr Nilai couldn’t sleep. The screams – endless apparently – from the apartment next door got his heardrums heavy and his brain cloudy. After the screams bumps started, volcanic, demolishing. As usual...
View ArticleMr Nilai late wife
Mimicking, panicking, flicking and flipsing. Mr Nilai facial expression tore apart when he saw his late flower dressed wife mirroring him from the bathroom mirror. Only it wasn’t his late wife. It was...
View ArticleEscaping, but where?
Mr Nilai was scared. He’d never been bullied before, but he was willing to bet that the situation was getting dangerous. At first it was just a matter of glances, given while he climbed the stairs....
View ArticleMr Nilai closes a deal with the Agostoni family cat
Mr Nilai hesitated before slipping the envelope in the Agostoni family’s letter box. He hadn’t wanted to ask the caretaker, on shift every morning from 8 to 12, because Mrs. Apollonia could have...
View ArticleMr Nilai’s ties collection
Mr Nilai owned more than 130 ties, everyone with a memory glued to the fabric pattern. His favourite was an old blue wool tie with some tiny orange dots, gift of his neighbour, Mrs Olga. Mr Nilai was...
View ArticleThe old striped dressing gown
For an instant, the cry of the winner of the evening quiz was superimposed with that rising from the courtyard. Mr Nilai was silent, stunned by so much stereo hype. Until he could no longer resist....
View ArticleA sudden change
The evening news hadn’t even started when Mr Nilai decided, in a totally unexpected way, to solve the coded anectode before the free pattern crosswords on page 33. Varying the puzzles order it was...
View Article2 things
Mr Nilai hated 2 things, more than everything: birthdays’ cakes, guilty of reminding to him that another year passed by with the upsetting addition of unavoidable glycemic storms; the morning djs,...
View ArticleA selfish gift
Mr Nilai still twitched at the memory of the bellyache from the night before, and wondered if perhaps Mrs. Olga had deliberately tried to poison him. Everything started off with Mrs. Olga’s daughter...
View ArticleWheather forecast
By then it was a habit, and Mr Nilai had adjusted to it just like a foot in an old slipper. Every afternoon before leaving, and every evening before going to bed, Mr Nilai turned the teletext on and...
View ArticleNoodle and poodle
The misunderstanding started when Mr. Nilai has been asked whether he loved noodle and poodle. Thinking back to the brainy dog of his then young wife and to the lovely face of his now young Chinese...
View ArticleYou gotta go out of here
What terrified Mr Nilai was the knowledge that – a little later – he would have witnessed, during the condominium’s annual meeting, the usual collection of the residents’ miseries. What he didn’t know...
View ArticleA selfish gift: Part 2
After picking on Mr Nilai calling him every name under the sun for knocking that late in the evening (9:30 PM), Mrs. Olga tried to slip between her daughter and the unsuspecting neighbor, in an attempt...
View ArticleEnding a marriage
Mrs. Terenzia Nilai wasn’t a looker, yet Mr Nilai loved her with all the intensity which his accountant heart was capable of. This despite Mrs. Nilai had a bad temper and was, above all, lazy and ready...
View Articlebirthday celebration
this weekend Mr Nilai is out celebrating his birthday. coming back next weekend. cheers everybody!!!
View ArticleIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian
Mr Nilai had never been abroad before, so his decision came at least unexpected. Yet, when Mr Wu asked him to accompany him to Switzerland, he didn’t think twice before agreeing. Of course, thinking...
View ArticleIt’s a dirty job, but sombody’s got to do it!
The condominium’s meeting had not yet been concluded, that Mr. Nilai was surrounded by a boisterous group of fierce residents. More and more bewildered, he was hit by a cacophony of “Enough with the...
View ArticleThese times are hard, Mr Nilai!
What worried most Mr Nilai, in his newest guise of condominium’s administrator – beyond the gifts of dubious provenance and inconvenient visits of his neighbors at any time of the day or night – it was...
View ArticleCheer u up, Mr Nilai!
Disappointed, disillusioned. A lonesome lonely person living alone. This is what Mr Nilai thought about himself when, completed the evening’s crossword, he looked around and the only thing he could see...
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