Fate or chance- poem
The greatest love or a skippable sitcom episode. Continue Reading
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The unlikely ones: Time
I’ve never liked watches: Those illusory attempts at time control. We can see the sands of time slip through our fingers for a while but we can never hold time in our hands. We just have to let go of… Continue Reading
The unlikely ones: The necklace
“Mr., are you not cold?”, said a woman in Polish to Agustin while he stood barefoot in the chilliness of November, outside his hostel. He didn’t understand Polish, but he was too lost in his own thoughts to pay attention… Continue Reading
All you need is love-poem
All you need is love in an American dream, in a Polish winter you can’t just live of love. All you need is love in the Empire States, but Pałac Kultury wasn’t built with love. All you need… Continue Reading
Child and blue whale- by Juan M.S
A child bumps his head against a blue whale beached on a roundabout in fifth avenue, some clowns from a nearby circus come to see the performance, their heads swinging to the rhythm of the thumps, their idiotic grimaces like… Continue Reading
Life’s predicaments- Chapter Two- by Juan M.S
Chapter Two: Here comes the monster “The little big monster” was how uncle Gary had baptized Tobias, maybe because the little kid insisted obstinately in calling him “uncle gay” because his little ear, used to the sound of Spanish, was… Continue Reading
Tejerina’s horror- by Juan M.S
Recently someone remarked that my horror stories are too violent and therefore unpleasant. I answered that I just depict the world as it is; the pristine world is generous but also hostile to human kind and we need to thrive… Continue Reading
The empanadas- by Juan M.S
I was walking one afternoon, as usual, to kill time until my wife came back home to dinner. She worked full-time so I was in charge of the household. I didn’t mind the cleaning because it was a small house.… Continue Reading
My parents are alive – by Juan M.S.
Based on historical facts 1999, Rosario, Argentina. Elba was a happy 20 year old girl. She lived in a nice flat near the University where she studied economics and she visited her parents almost every weekend. They lived in a… Continue Reading