Forum Guest Country: Italy

Creatura!

At dawn, a small lizard with its tail cut off escapes from a child’s hands. We’re in Valle d’Aosta, near a mountain farm. It’s time to milk the cows, but the routine is interrupted: François witnesses the birth of a goat. The newborn kid seems doomed. To spare him worry, his parents hide the truth. That night, restless, François returns to the stable and discovers the kid has two heads. Soon after, it dies. Shaken, the boy drifts in and out of sleep, haunted by visions and fears.

At sunrise, he ventures into the woods where he first saw the creature, waiting for the sun’s rays to work a miracle. And when the light finally touches him, the kid lets out a bleat. François is stunned, and so is his mother, who has come searching for him. The story ends on this fragile, glowing moment: perhaps something, against all logic, has returned to life.