I. Empathy Imagine yourself single, emotionally available and wanting to meet new people without the help of chance. Imagine yourself on your way to a blind date. Different from the common definition. (This my imaginary challenge implies thinking about a literally blind date. In the dark and orchestrated by no…
One day, not when you’re old and not a few years from now, you’ll understand, as one who discovers traces of gunpowder on a…
It was early, not more than the usual when an arrow busted my eardrums and my soul began to bleed. A wave of blood…
One day, which I don’t remember, he left. On another day, which I don’t remember, our family was divided in two. Yet another day,…
The first man who broke my heart was Nicholas, you can call him Santa Claus. And we all know why. The second one was…
I woke up in the middle of the night with the certainty that I wasn’t alone. I felt your presence as before. Once again,…
I was on my way to New York when I discovered a crumpled paper in my pocket. I unfolded the note and smirked. The…
South House is one of Alice’s hosts. I choose this bar to be alone, because it welcomes me and camouflages me. We, a glass…
9:30 am – “I’m unsatisfied…. I want a doughnut!” – “No you don’t. Remember your diet.” Silence. Killer look. He stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts:…
I started a fire in the pit and laid the fluffy blanket on the wooden floor. In front of the fireplace I had prepared…
Bienvenidos a Miami! I wrote this piece in South Beach Miami, sitting on a beige stone wall that separates the sand from the tar.…
Writing about homesickness is like having heart surgery. It’s evasive. My heart is inside a snow globe, on the highest shelf in my room.…
This body, where I, live is my favorite place. Today I accept it and I don’t wish another, but it wasn’t always like this.…
Aurora and I celebrated ten years of friendship, we had the perfect excuse to go out. (I was the mastermind because she didn’t remember our special day). I opened the door…
– “They’ll call her Carolina.” I hugged that belly from when I knew you were living in there. They didn’t ask my opinion when…
– Girls! Come set the table! – My parents and grandparents shouted, in distant pasts. There were six of us gathering around the table. Then…
It was a quiet beach day in the Caribbean. The sea was still, seemingly harmless, despite the red flag placed further away from us.…
“Mi vida! Mi amor!” We landed in Havana. With our heads outside the taxi windows, we were dazzled by the ride. The hostel that…
Welcome to the city that never sleeps and that seems to be everything that is not. The bride that takes the yellow cab, may…
This was a happy day, I thought. She was acting weird. Weird like when you’re hanging with a cheerful group and everyone is having…
“Hey!” – She shouted, scaring the bejesus out of me. That was Bokyoung Park, smiling and ready to be a part of Alice’s world.…
Finally, and for the first time, I started to live on my own. I was feeling creative and excited. Living by myself meant that…
From an early age, the land where I was born was mentioned on my school homework. Misspelled but described with nostalgia and curiosity. Destiny…
I built a house for you, for me, for us. This house didn’t have walls, wasn’t palpable or visible but it existed. I know…
When I travel by bus I try to sit near a window. I sit down, snuggle up, and when the engine starts, my mind…
Day by day I could feel her giving up. I no longer knew what to do for her. Lying in the dark, she examined…
It was only four of us that night, we were spending quality time as a family. You and I got bored and we started…
In the uncertainty I lose myself in thoughts of loss and detachment. Have to admit that you died on me. There were, a few,…
January 16, 6 am I was running late, in the corridors of the airport. Accelerated and barefoot, I passed the security, almost lost the…
One sunny afternoon, the birds were singing, you on the marble bench cooking, and I in the background, planning the next nonsense. I do…