The Tramp’s Dog
I always wanted to write a story about a dog, but I soon realized it couldn’t be just any dog, not even a stray dog; it had to be a tramp’s dog…
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The Spirit of the Beehive
In the 1940s, at the height of the Franco regime, a traveling cinema arrives in a small village in Segovia, on the Castilian plateau. They screen Frankenstein, a film that deeply impacts Ana, a six-year-old girl. This moment marks the beginning of a journey that will lead her to discover her own self…
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The Narcissist and His Victim
It is curious, but any internet user who frequents a general-interest forum on the net will sooner or later come across the continuous and prolific deification and magnification of supposed narcissists by supposed victims…
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The Farmhouse Dog
Among the countless misfortunes that those four-legged angels we call “dogs” were left by God, in His malice or indifference, in the hands of the devil (us), one should include—alongside the slavery and suffering of spending a lifetime bound to a chain, enduring incomprehensible and unjustified abandonment…
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The Incredible Story of Collie Smith
Colin Smith was the eldest of eight siblings in a very humble family that lived in a remote village in the Andes Mountains. He had spent his entire childhood herding sheep on the mountain and helping his mother take care of his brothers and sisters…
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The Lost Paradise of B-Movies
In the solitude of my “boomer” years, I sometimes feel a wave of nostalgia for those fascinatingly grotesque and delightfully dim-witted cinematic train wrecks of my childhood and adolescence. I’m talking about the films that invaded the video rental shops where I used to hide, simply because there was nothing else to do…
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