Alain SUPPINI
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I’m Alain — a French critical care anesthesiologist who writes to keep memory alive. Between past and present, medicine and words, I search for what endures.
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One Woman, One Mountain
The sky was already bleeding into ink when Élise tightened the straps of her backpack and stepped onto the trail. A pale crescent moon hung above the Cévennes, casting long shadows across the pines. The forest exhaled cool, damp air, scented with moss and old stone. Each footstep echoed a rhythm older than her thoughts.
By Alain SUPPINI6 months ago in Fiction
The Cabin of Silence. Runner-Up in The Summer That Wasn’t Challenge.
The train stopped at a platform barely long enough for two carriages. There was no café, no sound except the chirping of crickets in the morning haze. Clara stepped off, dragging her dented suitcase behind her. Her phone showed no new messages. Just the date: July 7.
By Alain SUPPINI6 months ago in Fiction
The 6:17 to Somewhere New. Winner in The Second First Time Challenge. Top Story - July 2025.
Marc hadn’t taken the 6:17 PM train in nearly two years. Not since he left the job he thought he’d die in, not since Elise had walked out with the last of their shared plants and all the warmth from the apartment. Not since he stopped believing in rhythms - that predictable cadence of departure and return that used to structure his weeks like a heartbeat.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in Fiction
The Boy Who Wasn't There
I hadn’t been home in twelve years. Not really. Not the kind of home that smells like old wood and lemon soap, with drawers that jam halfway and a back door that groans like a dying animal. But here I was, back in my parents’ house — the house I grew up in — standing in the silence of the foyer, key still trembling in my hand.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in Fiction
Still Standing: The Secret Strength of America's Oldest Constitution
In a world where revolutions rewrite regimes and constitutions rise and fall with political tides, the United States stands as an outlier. Since 1787, the same foundational text — drafted by men in powdered wigs and handwritten on parchment — has governed a nation that now spans 50 states, commands the world’s largest economy, and faces 21st-century problems unimagined by its authors. The U.S. Constitution is the oldest surviving written constitution in the world. But why has it endured? What makes this centuries-old document still capable of navigating the complex political, legal, and social dynamics of a modern, often divided nation?
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in History
Between Vigilance and Adaptation
As the world enters an era of accelerated transformation, the two traditional poles of the West — the United States and Europe — must confront emerging powers, technological ruptures, and unprecedented ecological upheavals. Their strategic survival will depend less on their past than on their ability to anticipate the future.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in History
🇺🇸🇪🇺 Two Paths, One Uncertain World
As the 21st century unfolds, a key question arises: between the United States and Europe, who best embodies power, stability, and adaptability in a rapidly changing world? Beyond statistics and symbols, two worldviews meet, compete, and sometimes complement one another.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in History
🇺🇸 From Untamed Wilderness to Global Empire
How did a scattered patchwork of colonies become the world’s leading superpower? From 1607 to the present day, the United States has undergone an expansion as breathtaking as it is conflicted. Here’s how conquest, innovation, and contradiction shaped a singular nation.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in History
The Final Equation
May 11, 1955 Zurich, Switzerland I awoke this morning with a curious clarity. Not of the body—this vessel grows frailer with each sunrise—but of the spirit. The wind brushed through the trees like a soft sigh, and I felt, for the first time in many years, that the burden I had carried was no longer mine alone.
By Alain SUPPINI7 months ago in Chapters
