Mercury
Mercury written by: Nick Di Carlo - When I was a kid, if I could’ve been a god, I’d have been Mercury—the jack-of-all-trades...
Nick Di Carlo
Nick Di Carlo, an erstwhile poet, retired educator and inveterate short fiction writer has been careening about this planet for seven decades and a bit. He has taught writing and literature in traditional and non-traditional settings, including maximum security correctional facilities. He’s been recognized for his “vigorous, muscular prose in the service of an unflinching vision of the world.” Novelist Eugene Mirabelli has written: “Di Carlo’s stories are severe and uncompromising. They aren’t pretty, but they are real. His scenes are gritty and hard edged, his characters are lost, marginal and indomitable. The writer is a man of great ambition, honesty, and unflagging energy.” His work appears in Muleskinner Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine, Guilty Crime Story Magazine, Flash Fiction Friday as well as print anthologies.
