Short stories of a long journey

Tag: Literature

  • The most singular beauty

    View of the Amazon         Macas City, Morona.Santiago Province, Ecuador   “Ah, that is a very good question. The lakes          San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro Province, Argentina . I’ll answer that what I have found, the most singular beauty in this world, may be so, but only for…

  • The things in front of us

      “I simply didn’t have the capacity or maybe the experience, Santander  Avenue         Manizales, Caldas, Manizales and for reasons I still can’t absolutely define; I didn’t recognize it at the moment.   Perhaps we search for things in the wrong way, and even if they are in front of us, we don’t identify…

  • Searching for himself

      “And what was I looking for?” he smiled as he answered, “You might say I was searching for myself, but that is not really true.   I believe that, contrary to other persons, I have never lost myself, and indeed, I have always known where to find myself.”    The stories       …

  • The quest

      “I’ll tell you that it’s curious that you ask. It’s curious because I was precisely thinking about the subject just before coming in and beginning to chat with you.   The thing is… deep down inside, I believe that all these travels have been motivated by a quest.” Doña Eudalia had gotten up from…

  • Doña Eudalia

      And that was precisely Doña Eudalia, no more, no less.   She was entrenched in a table next to her uniformed assistants   (the buses, travelling daily from the distant border, would stop for a half hour in front of her diner, a block and a half behind the town’s church and next to…

  • A pause

    It seemed that the outsider had an insatiable and voracious thirst that lay on the brink of becoming bottomless, for he grabbed the bottle of moonshine, and quickly, he proceeded to pour himself another shot. Simon placed more orange slices on a clean, new plastic plate, placing it in front of the foreigner, with a…

  • Of the sunrises

    “Maybe on fewer occasions, but I have also contemplated the sunrises, when the world is only a promise… and everything is possible.”    The stories                In Spanish                How to buy          Facebook

  • Of the landscapes

    “Of the landscapes, I’ve seen them all. The sunsets when the sun delivers itself into the night, and the surroundings are bathed in multi-coloured lights.     From the mountains and from the coastal plains.”    The stories                     Spanish                 …

  • Of women that fall in love and fall out of love

    I’ve seen more than one woman as she falls in love,   according to the convictions and customs they have for that, and also, according to what part of the world they live in.   And more than once, I have seen women fall out of love,   also according to the beliefs and the traditions…

  • I have seen the women

    I have seen many colours of women   I have seen lands where they like to grow immensely fat and heavy as they accumulate a wealth of pounds to their body through years of heavy eating.  I’ve also seen them so slender and so skinny that it would appear the food does not get to those…