It was as if he didn’t actually want to take the call. He would not have been unhappy if time were to stand still, and he would never have to face putting the phone to his ear. Ever since he had been called out of the meeting with an urgent ‘Carlos, there’s a call for you from the hospital. Somet...
On the outskirts of the city of Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco, Mexico The girl had spent the entire night howling. It was a visceral noise, more commonly associated with a wild animal, than the gaunt, virtually emaciated body of a little girl, who was barely ten years old. She lay curled u...
He knew the priest was bringing news from his short trip to Rome, and he'd rather receive them in this pleasant environment, far from the rest of humanity. "I used to come here with my son." "It really is a wonderful place." "We used to play here; skimming flat stones and counting the number of t...