About me | Debora Flisi

Hi, I'm Debora

I write and draw what it is not from this world: monsters and heroes, mysteries, dark and fantastic world.

But it hasn't always been like this...

Yesterday...

When I was little, I read everything I could get my hands on.

Like all children, I was morbidly attracted to forbidden things: The Black Cat from Poe, which accidentally ended up in my classroom library in elementary school, terrified me ... and yet, I couldn't stop reading it.

A few years later, I stole The Tommyknockers (Stephen King) from my home library and, after replacing the cover with the one of The Lord of the Rings , I read it in defiance of my parents' prohibition.

Again guaranteed nightmares for weeks... but it was absolutely worth it.

I spent all my free time reading and drawing .

Then I started writing: I wanted to create stories that could give goosebumps to those who read them too!

Everyone faces challenges and difficulties in their own way.

Reading has always been my safe place, but writing and drawing soon became my way of facing and managing problems , of looking at them from another perspective, of exorcising them .

She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain

I hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain

Sweet child o'mine - Guns n' roses

...Today...

Like all children, when i was little I had clear ideas about what I wanted to do with my life: write, draw, read, make music, cook, have a big farm with lots of animals.

And, like everyone, I had to come up against the wall of reality.

It was a painful clash .

But, luckily for me, I'm very stubborn : I ignored everything that was against me, and I clung to my dreams tooth and nail .

My horse was the first one to really make me understand that I could do it .

When I adopted him, at the end of his harness racing career, he was a twelve-year-old stallion who had never had a rider. At first it was hard: we didn't understand each other, my friends asked me who had made me do it, and my teacher was convinced that the horse was unmanageable and that he would break my back bones.

But I couldn't stop thinking that it was them, my friends and teachers, who were wrong ... I just had to find the right way to communicate with the horse.

It took all my courage to leave the stables and start over.

My instinct did not betray me: in a few months, the horse - Ranger Wood SM, Ranger in short - and I began to communicate and understand each other.

Today, after a couple of years, he is the best companion in the universe .

Ranger made me realize that I could do it, that dreams do come true.

And here we are...

...Tomorrow

The grit it takes to transform a trotter into a riding horse is a lot...

But I knew he was the right horse for me.

And it also takes a lot of determination to learn to cook gluten-free, after a late diagnosis of celiac disease. The pleasure of kneading, the smell of freshly baked cookies, the homemade cake for breakfast that makes you start the day off right...

I didn't want to give up all of this.

If there's one secret to achieving your dreams, this is it: grit and determination .

And consistency .

And I still have many dreams to realize : I still want the farm, the music, the books and the illustrations, to surround myself with animals and people I love.

I'm on the right path, but it'is still long and winding... I'll need all the strength I've built up to now to follow it to the end. And, why not, some adventure companion.

This is my world and I bring it to you, with all its shadows and mysteries, its heroes and demons. Will you be on my side along this journey?

And if there's a secret , it's to do everything as if you only saw the sun

and not something that isn't there

(tranlsation) Elisa - Qualcosa che non c'è