“I hated you because you reminded me of…how I once was…of what I lost.”

— Vanna Bonta, book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

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