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Danitza Eterovic

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Flowering Desert

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Hate crimes - mental health - terrorist attacksI was a 15-year-old teenager living in Texas when I saw in the Rider's Digest magazine, back in 1984, an advertisement of a woman in her late 40s wanting a pen pal. Her name was Isidora Carvajal Díez, a Chilean woman willing to practice her English in exchange for friendship and the teaching of some Spanish words in her letters. Her double surname and her Latin American origin caught my attention. Therefore, I sent her my first letter, telling Isidora that my name was Samantha ...

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The garden of our Valentine

Weekly Contest #212

Santiago, 14 February My dear Butterfly,We knew it was true love when that ladybug reached our holding hands the day we first met. It happened when the sun was shining in the highest of the sky. I had already studied for my Bar exam, so I was eager to enjoy the little spare time I could afford. You were finishing college too, do you remember? Who would predict that the end of our professional education would concur with our relationship bursting like the Big Bang?I remember those October evenings when eating our ice-creams ghosts in the...

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The phoenix reborn

“Cut!” Vanessa said in her head.  As always, Vanessa was daydreaming. She clearly was not a cinema director. Also, Vanessa was not in a film set either. She was just un unhappy journalist traveling in the subway to attend her 9-AM-to-5-PM job at the Popcorn Novelties magazine. Although Vannessa could write the columns at home, she had a schedule to accomplish in order to receive her monthly check. Because of her job, Vanessa received weekly avant premiére tickets so she could watch the films before anybody else and critique th...

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Flowering Desert

Weekly Contest #202

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Hate crimes - mental health - terrorist attacksI was a 15 year old teenager living in Texas when I saw in the Rider's Digest magazine, back in 1984, an advertisement of a woman in her late 40s wanting a pen pal. Her name was Isidora Carvajal Díez, a Chilean woman willing to practice her English in exchange of a friendship and the teaching of some Spanish words in her letters. Her double surname and her Latin American origin caught my attention. Therefore, I sent her my first letter, telling Isidora that my name was Samantha...

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