Butterflies in My Life
I owe the almost sensual pleasure I have for butterflies to my childhood stamp-collecting hobby. Back then…
Read MoreI owe the almost sensual pleasure I have for butterflies to my childhood stamp-collecting hobby. Back then…
Read MoreThere was a box with Christmas tree decorations among my grandmother’s things. Finding it was like finding treasure.
Read MorePrometheus, god of fire, grant me light. I’m not asking for something as volatile as lighter fluid. I ask only for a simple box of matches.
Read MoreI’ve been flicking through some books recently, searching for answers. One of these books was about traditional Cuban medicine.(9 photos)
Read MoreI was completely aware of the crisis that began in Cuba after the USSR collaped one morning in 1991. I was 21 and had just finished my military service.
Read MoreThere are books that always stay in the same place when you bring them home. However, there are other books which are always in different spots, as if they move by themselves. De los escalones para abajo, Irina Pino’s book of poems, is one of these books.
Read MoreOlder than the famous Paseo del Prado, Alameda de Paula (Paula boulevard), is the first space built for social reasons in front of the sea, inside the walled city. (17 photos)
Read MoreThis happened when I’d just finished my military service and I didn’t want to be alone. I was 21 years old, I was independent at last and I was convinced that I could have anything I wanted.
Read MoreOut of the toughest problems a writer might face, none of them seemed as hard as the simple act of writing one word after another, in K’s eyes at least. Everything boils down to this, he thought.
Read MoreThe following is the second part of the story in which I spent three days, of my own accord, in a Havana jail cell, thanks to my neighbor the policeman’s help, so I could stop smoking.
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