I stand up two meters from the staircase of the gallows nodding my head. I lift my eyes slowly, while I count idly the steps up to the stage: 11. They seem a little higher …
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“The Chelo”, ideals, determination, survival (Part II)
I am down in the garden from the back side of house, where we used to have breakfast all summers during our stay in the village. I sat in the stone bench that is sculpted …
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A Lamia in La Vera (part II)
Such a vision made Jose’s head spin dizzily. He remembered the words of his father: “if you get tired and strongly dizzied, sit down and take a sip of water… Then, take a deep breath …
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A Lamia in La Vera (part I)
In the mid twentieth century, specifically in 1947, the writer Oscar Castro, known, among other books, for his “Responso a Federico García Lorca”, dies in the first of November, is the day of the blessed …
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Learn to fish
This summer we came back to my uncle’s Carlos village , Losar de La Vera. I prefer this one than my grandfather’s village, because it is nearer and i get less tired of the trip. …
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The people of La Vera, and a pending obituary.
The people of La Vera, and a pending obituary. “The people and their paths are full of short cuts ” That is what Miguel de Unamuno writes about the inhabitants of the region of La …
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The chestnut leaf
I wasn’t born in Losar de La Vera. Not through of any decision of my own, of course, but because my father happened to be working in Madrid at the time, as a general practitioner. …
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