The Invisible Hero
The fiction on this page is on the theme of the invisible hero. These will be stories of characters who are driven by hidden voices, life scripts, or beliefs; who have long repressed and forgotten something; who see something that others don’t — and other, similar figures. They will enact the invisible intuitions, voices, whether destructive or rescuing, revelations (or the refusal to have any).
Enjoy the mysteries of the human shadows, as stories are published on this page!
Home Is Where You Are
Captives in the Calypso, a boarding house for immigrants, the characters in this story are struggling to move on towards a home. But "home" has lost its reference, as they hang in a limbo: they don't belong where they are, nor where they come from.
Time vs John Lennon
In this fantasy, a teenager travels in time to save John Lennon from being shot dead. A reflection prompt to think about your relationship with time, and fantasies.
Run for Your Life
The invisible hero is here the false belief "in order to be strong, I need to put away my emotions and shut myself off", which is driving these heroines' efforts to stay strong and avoid collapsing in the face of adversity.
Dead-Night Visitors
This short piece is a sensorial record of a night of insomnia. Shreds of impressions and recalling of the day's happenings gradually turn into coherent assessments of what went on, followed by fears of future and projections of possible scenarios. In parallel, different tactics are used to shut down the mental activity and allow the glide into sleep.
I Spy With My Little Eye
In this story, the invisible hero is a character that only the protagonist can see. In the three connected short pieces, the invisible character is first a dream, then a mode of living, and finally a mirror of the self.
When the Place Is a Map, and the Map Is a Maze
This is an invisible hero 3-part story about a journalist who goes to an obscure country for a TV doc, but goes down a rabbit hole and lands in a place of his mind. Or was the obscure country a place of his mind, too? The idea of geographical places becoming places of the hero’s mind has always fascinated me. Beyond its culture and society, the place becomes a character by shaping the protagonist’s experience.