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Your 34th Birthday
March 2006. Vrachati, Greece. A killer sun was blinding my eyes. I had a small talk with a group of co-students under an oak tree, in an undefined landscape. Somewhere among a field of olive trees and the promise of a beach further down, but it was cold, I don’t remember the sea. I’m wearing…
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Watching the Perseid meteor shower with my Yiayia
“We are all stardust, and one day we will return to the stars. Someday there will be other worlds, filled with other beings, star-people like us, born from the ashes of another one – a dead star. A star that today we call the Sun.“ D. P. Simopoulos I have been planning this evening for a…
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Her fantasy world by the bedside table
Wake up. Wake up and let me tell you a story. The years have passed and you too have forgotten. You told me once with conviction that you would not fail to remember. Memory is a fickle thing. Listen, my dearest. Every morning I go for a walk. I cross the canal, I stand on…
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Rain into my living room
The playground was full of red garbage and the truck couldn’t fit. She left her bag next to the rooster and disappeared into the cave. Unfortunately, she wasn’t alone. The big panthers were trying to dig a hole as well. Far, far, far away, in another corner of tiramisu city, an old lady foresees the…