This is a short, fictional piece that I wrote for La Revista de la Universidad de Mexico, as part of their "Diario de la pandemia" series. To read the Spanish version please follow this link. While we were in the midst of the lockdown in London, and I was sheltering...
Category: Short Stories
Perfect day with Lou
It was spring of 1981. I was in love with a blond girl from the all-girls school that was several blocks away from our own, all-boys school, in central Athens. For both of us this was our last year at school. Like our schoolmates we were working hard for the...
The Venusian
In the neighbourhood where I grew up there lived an old man we used to make fun of. His name was Vangelis. Barba-Vangelis[1] was the kind, tender type of fellow who did not mind very much when a ball came crashing through his window or when a can of red...
Cloudbuster
This is the story of a television star. We shall call him, for convenience, Eliah. To start, we must make clear that he never had big ambitions in life. In fact, his mother remembers him as a very timid child whom scarcely made any friends and tended to spend most...