Giulia, Me, and the Rock

A man awakens alone on a cruise ship adrift in the Mediterranean. The other passengers are gone. The engines are silent. And in the cabin with him lies the naked body of a dead woman.

Trapped in this floating prison, the sole survivor begins an obsessive investigation into the womans identity and death, even as his own sanity unravels. Through stream-of-consciousness prose that blurs the line between reality and hallucination, he reconstructs her life from fragments—a photograph, a wedding ring, handwritten stories—while confronting the darkest corners of isolation, desire, and mortality.

"Giulia, Me, and the Rock" is a haunting psychological novella that explores what happens when a man becomes the sole author of his own reality. Part existential thriller, part dark meditation on loneliness and connection, Francesco Sullos work pushes boundaries with unflinching honesty, creating a narrative that is at once disturbing, poetic, and deeply human.

For readers of Camus, Poe, and literary psychological fiction, this is a work that refuses to look away from the uncomfortable truths about isolation, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.