Shallow Breathing

By Robert Vrbnjak

Crowds make Fausto nervous. Or, to be more precise still, everything makes Fausto nervous. This presenter, for instance. He’d love to throw the radio out of the window the moment the guy goes, ‘News!’, and then proceeds to reel them off, all those boring, predictable Sunday news.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Vrbnjak
• Release date: Feb 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301510122

Robert Vrbnjak

Robert Vrbnjak was born on June 30, 1963 in Rijeka (Croatia). He is author of several books of prose and two novels. The characters of his stories are urban individuals which live faced with contemporary frustrations, fears and hopes, and his writing is often imbued with a spirit of existential philosophy, and to some measure, shows resistance to the consumerism and corporate worldview that we are imposed to.

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Shallow breathing

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Robert A. Vrbnjak

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Shallow breathing

Copyright © 2013 by Robert A. Vrbnjak

On Sunday, Fausto gets up early and makes coffee. He used to bring it to Sofia in bed - she takes hers with sugar and a little milk - but he no longer bothers. While she’s still asleep, he prefers to sit here, listen to radio and look through the window. Deserted street, discarded glasses, broken bottles, shards of a night life; but only an hour or two later and it will yet again come alive with shapes and scents of the usual bustle of traffic and passers by; it will look the same as it does on any other weekday.

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