(Spanish Version) A little over a year after my mother lost her fight against cancer, Uncle Arnie moved permanently into our home. He was my mother’s younger brother and had also been my father’s point of entry into the family. My uncle and my old man met in completely ordinary, teenage circumstances, becoming best friends …
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A woman will never go backwards
(Spanish Version) I didn’t feel I was Eddie until I got to Michu’s pad. Her door was half open: it seemed to me that the walls draped with characters rolling around, smoking a cigarette under the reddish light of the fire detector or leaving bottles of vodka resting on the cat mat brought from a …
2 Rooms
(Spanish Version) “On more time, Gaspi. We need you to look here, ok?”. The boy nodded, showed his gapped tooth smile and posed badly again. The photographer sighed in frustration, giving a nod to the boy’s mother to come and talk to him; Claudia lifted him off her skirt and handed him to his mother. …
The Scorer
By Lucas Rodríguez Schwarzenberg (Spanish version) Nico took off his wet T-shirt and hung it from one of the side rails, then tapped his pecs a couple of times, trying to match the rhythm of the song that was playing in his head. When he opened a side pocket of his sport bag, he noticed …
Empty Spaces
By Lucas Rodríguez Schwarzenberg (Spanish version) That night shouldn’t have had anything weird at all. I was chilling, turning the PS4 on, getting that last slice of Papa John’s pizza. Taking the product for a try in a slow and quite fashion. I saw the smoke go up to the roof with those snake-like twists …
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