Category: 10 About coffee and after dinner digestives

  • Showering the waiters

    Business proposals ….. Chapter X: About coffee and after dinner digestives      “Anyway, these gentlemen wanted me to dust their cotton crops with my good old, trusty plane. You know, it was the same Cessna we’ve flown in so many times, The Warrior Queen, she’s just like my woman; I’d never trade her for…

  • Business proposals

    Business proposals ….. Chapter X: About coffee and after dinner digestives      Because Grandmother happened to enter, he paused for a moment with a sigh. She entered carrying a tray with a pitcher full of steamy hot chocolate and a large platter with cookies.      “Filling the child’s head with tall tales, Jairo?”…

  • Chocolate and cookies in bed

    Chocolate and cookies in bed ….. Chapter X: About coffee and after dinner digestives      “Once I went to lunch with this German business man. We had lunch in Managua City”, he began to tell me. He lazily picked up the candies, making a little mound with them on the bed.      “At…

  • Candies from nowhere…

    Candies from nowhere… ….. Chapter X: About coffee and after dinner digestives      I felt his gaze rest upon me, as he stood motionless at my door. Time stretched into an eternity (partly because I had this terrible itch in my nose, it may have felt impossibly longer). Finally! He walked in. He took…

  • Justice served unto the world…

    Justice serve unto the world… ….. Chapter X: About coffee and after dinner digestives      While I was wondering if this sad world had anything else left for me, beyond feeling dejected and miserable, I heard my grandfather’s voice. It came from far away, for it sounded somewhere in the house. It approached and…

  • A sick and bored child

    A sick and bored child ….. Chapter IX: The girl and the mango tree       Beyond any shadow of doubt, among his many grandchildren, I was Grandfather´s favorite. Since I was a little girl, we would spend so much time together. In his own way, he was trying to prepare me for life.…

  • About coffee and after-dinner digestives

    Chapter X:  About coffee and after-dinner digestives Beyond any shadow of doubt, among his many grandchildren, I was Grandfather´s favourite. Since I was a little girl, we would spend so much time together. In his own way, he was trying to prepare me for life. Whenever he noticed I was feeling unwell, or when I…