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Grape-Kun

The Conversation

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There are days when the universe seems to conspire against you so that you won’t get out of bed. Yesterday was one of those days. Ever since Marian left, I spend my days locked up at home without talking to anyone, slowly going mad, but yesterday I finally went out into the street intending to walk the entire city until I found her. Fortunately, laziness helped me abandon my madness the very moment I crossed the threshold, though it didn't stop me from ending up seated in the corner library, still blinded by my obstinacy, in front of one of those talkative machines that are causing such a rage...

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Alba

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It must have been a full-moon night in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean—en route to the unfamiliar home of a maternal aunt in a foreign country—when, according to Alba’s hazy memories, one of the ship’s crew members told her a story. He was a taciturn man of Eastern appearance who had spent his entire life traveling among cargo and containers aboard massive freighters across the globe...

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The Miracle

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Many years later, facing his service weapon during the fateful night he took his own life, Sergeant Antonio García of the Civil Guard was to remember that remote afternoon when his father took him to witness the miracle of Macondo del Caudillo—at that time a village of barely a dozen houses scattered among vast wheat fields and lush forests of centuries-old holm oaks...

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The Strange Tale of the Master and His Foul Family

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After a lifetime of imparting knowledge from the classroom, the master, ever since his retirement, had not been happy. Although he had often entertained himself dreaming of that moment—especially during his final years, when he had noticed an alarming decline in academic standards that filled him with desolation—now that he possessed all the time in the world to read, reflect, and continue learning, he was bored...

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