Loneliness

by Viviana De Cecco, Italy

The feeling of being misunderstood, which affects many young people in today's society, causes individuals to retreat to their own solitary bubbles.

Viviana De Cecco is a writer, translator, language teacher and visual artist. She was the second-place winner of Sunlight Press Magazine’s 2024 Photography Contest and Best of The Net 2026 with her photo “Sardinian Crane Flower”. Her visual art appeared as cover art or interior illustration in Tint Journal, Orange Rose Mag, Zoetic Press, Ink in Thirds, Mud Season Review, Ink Nest Poetry (Cover Art), Acta Victoriana, Double Speak Magazine, among others. Her fiction and translations have also appeared in Double Speak Magazine, Yuvoice.org, Allyourstories, Hiraeth Magazine, The Polyglot Magazine, Poets' Choice, Azonal Translation, among others.