The Sicilian Inheritance

by Jo Piazza

Surprises are the best thing in life and there are too few of them,

The picture had come to represent what can happen when, for once in your life, you thought you actually deserved all the nice things that were happening to you. In the end I had wanted too much. I wanted success and love, a career and a child, a marriage and freedom. I’d wanted it all and I’d ended up with nothing.

“I love that the head of Medusa is on our flag. Don’t you?” “She was a monster.” “Was she? Or was she a brilliant woman with the ability to turn men to stone when they abused her or tried to take everything away from her?” “I never thought about it like that.” “Life is all about perspective, American.”

You just need a nap, a crap, and a snack.

Few things in life are as fundamentally satisfying as good, quick sex followed by a meal of mostly salty cheese.

Maybe I couldn’t do it all and be everything to everyone and that had to be OK.