The Plot
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Cavernous Breathing
What is my name? is a short story inspired by Cavernous Breathing by Samanta Schweblin that begins by placing us on a street looking toward a window where a mother asks a question,…
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The Last Heartbeat
If only the darkness would stop calling me, in my last heartbeat. If only the edge of that voice didn’t cut me, perhaps I could move forward in my life. But no, it’s…
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Can a thirteen-year-old girl turn her worst nightmare into the most powerful voice against oblivion? Anne Frank didn’t just survive in the pages of her diary: she conquered eternity by writing letters to…
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Call Me Ishmael, Moby Dick
I found no better way to begin a text about a white whale that travels the oceans and surprises friends and strangers every time it emerges to the surface. The ideal title, which…
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Villain Little Red Riding Hood
Believe it or not, many of us have come out in defense of the poor wolf. When one hears the name Little Red Riding Hood, one immediately remembers that sweet girl who, by…
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Global Fear by Eduardo Galeano
There’s always global fear, that fear that sometimes limits us from continuing to advance toward something better. Global fear by Eduardo Galeano remains intact, even after so much time. Fear Rules And we…
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To Escape the World
To escape the world. I prepare my cigarette… I do it slowly, very fast, but very slow so it doesn’t lose its charge. I check its charge well—that everything’s fine—that its seeds don’t…
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Erotic Novels Are More Than 50 Shades of Grey
I consider it worth beginning this little story with a simple statement: not all erotic novels are for all types of people. And reading 50 Shades of Grey—“The cliché of erotic novels”—is just…
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Perfume
Perfume is a novel written by German historian and screenwriter Patrick Süskind, which narrates the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man with a special quality: a prodigious sense of smell. With the capacity…
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Winton’s Children
This is a powerful novel set in Prague in 1938, moments before the Nazi occupation. The protagonist is Nicholas Winton, a 30-year-old London stockbroker who, along with a group of volunteers and sensing…
