Nobody seemed to remember the old house on the hilltop. The white walls worn and yellowed by time were speckled with thousands of small pinholes where termites have eaten through the wood leaving a complex web of faint lines. Pieces of blue shutters hung precariously on rotten joints or crumbled into piles of sand on …
The words seemed to be stuck in my throat. The lump in it warned me about the danger of allowing emotion betraying my promise and end up spilling truths that needed to be concealed. There was no ill intention. Of that at least, I could be certain. She was my best friend and I had …
The concept that each individual’s personality or path in life can be determined by constructing a map of the configuration of the sky on the exact date, time, and location of one’s birth, is indeed a very old one. Somehow the placement of planets in houses, the angles and conjunctions of the sky we were …
Bursts of intense joy are not unusual in me, although I confess; I don’t give them many chances to become visible. I tend to guard them as a precious secret. Something in me resists to expose them to ridicule. They are owned by the child that believes in magic and wonder. The young soul whose …
I don’t remember when it started, I think that I knew all my life I was destined to fight this war. The burden of fate, the all-encompassing certainty that things shall unfold the way they are meant to; no matter how much you crave to have a choice. I don’t remember my parents, I was …
Even after my dead they would remain safe. I had taken the necessary precautions to make it impossible for him to find them. He had in-imaginable resources, yes; but that was precisely what I was counting on. I had learned my lesson, a very painful one, I shall said. I had paid such a high …