Home » Culture » Stories

Confessions Of An Unknown

Sometimes I listen to people without knowing what they are saying. When I’m on the bus, in the cafeteria, or even in the bathroom, I can’t control myself: I create characters at my whim, manipulate their stories, their lives, and that’s why I’m here.

–My name is Marconi, and I am mentally divergent.

Read More

Osaka To Aracataca

Gabriel García Márquez vehemently insisted how important friends were in his life, so much so that in the prologue to Twelve Pilgrim Tales he recounts a dream in which he sees his friends gathered at his own funeral and concludes of death that “to die is to never be with friends again.” From Osaka to Aracataca is evidence of this.

Read More