Category: 07 About the trenches and the multiplying tables

  • Love’s ultimate test

    Love’s ultimate test ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables While Grandfather embellished the tale of that night, Grandmother would silently listen to him. She would listen quietly and smiling to herself. Memories that only she was aware of would race through her mind. Abruptly, she would commence to blush and get…

  • Lighting and quenching fires

    Lighting and quenching fires ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables All in all, it was a question of learning from experience. So it happened that on the following day, after that incident with the candle, that a bottle of Four Year Old Rum appeared on the altar (the white and economical…

  • The benefits of a trench

    The benefits of a trench ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables As it was, one unbearably hot summer night, my grandparents had retired to rest. An incoming light breeze entered through the balcony’s door. It upset one of the candles which happened to fall and light the bed’s mosquito-net; but Grandfather…

  • And the forty thieves

    And the forty thieves ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables      “Look kiddo, don’t tell anyone I told you so (especially not your grandma), but the bedroom I sleep in… I can´t help thinking of it as Ali Baba’s Cave! You know that famous bandit and his forty thieves. Now,…

  • Searching for more names

    Searching for more names ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables      My grandparents’ passage through this world was not in vain. I never understood how Grandfather found the time, to carry out all the things he did in life. To begin with, his eighteen children whom he brought into the…

  • Grownup since their childhood days

    The weekend niece. from the book, Searching for treasures      Seen from the perspective a such a young girl, her grandparents were gloomy and bleak, at least that was her perception. They seemed to be coated with an inflexible determination and barely prone to display affection toward her. But, they surely were rigorously strict…

  • The end of the world is coming…

    The end of the world is coming… ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables      Not so punctual, but close to noon, Antonio would also pass in front of the house every day. He was a tall, slender young man, and he had very dark skin, and coal black, wiry hair.…

  • Hot tortillas for half a córdoba a dozen

    Hot tortillas for half a córdoba a dozen ….. Chapter VII: About the trenches and the multiplying tables      A few years after their marriage, Grandfather Jairo bought the stately and colonial mansion from his mother. She had inherited the house from her parents after her own marriage. The house was in the historic…

  • About the trenches and the multiplication tables

    Chapter VII:  About the trenches and the multiplication tables A few years after their marriage, Grandfather Jairo bought the stately and colonial mansion from his mother. She had inherited the house from her parents after her own marriage. The house was in the historic center of the old colonial city of León, and it was…