Love, Passion, Nightmare

ASLEEP.

We’re eating together in a classy restaurant; our meals were paid for by someone else. We got in an argument, but I can’t recall about what. I touch your arm, attempting to understand, trying to offer comfort and support. I hope you let your guard down, but I receive…

Somewhere between not too long ago and yesterday

Somewhere between not too long ago and yesterday. A boy builder or a builder boy, both appropriately describing two aspects of our protagonist’s self, was looking for a potential client. His search, while proving mostly futile was a little too…

Colonia Roma

Colonia Roma

I picked up Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Sidewalks’ before my trip to Mexico City. I could not read it on my trip.

I stayed in the Colonia Roma part of D.F. I walked on Frontera, took a wrong turn into Calle Chihuahua, then traced my steps back…

What Curiosity Brings Within

City life. The crowd, the rudeness of shoppers and the people who don’t think of anything but themselves. Even though I hated it, yet one more day I was in a shopping centre with my mom. I had no chance to escape and reunite with my books in my safe room again. I didn’t like…

No Talent Night

Non mi capita spesso di sognare. So che tutti sognano, in realtà, solo che io non ne conservo alcun ricordo. Nulla. Al mattino, il più delle volte è solo mattino. Nessuna strana sensazione, sentimento particolare, strascichi di sorrisi o di pianto. Nulla. Di solito allungo il braccio come fosse la…