«Having confirmed her suspicions she directed again
her attention to what was happening outside. This was one of the typical
diverting maneuvers, that were part of a complex strategy, created and refined
by her, in order to avoid or try to postpone, for as long as she could, the
inevitability of having to deal with every kind of painful situations that came
her way.»
By Raquel R.
in Short Story number 12
«The body shuts down when it has too much to bear;
goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb
and half alive.»
Jeanette Winterson
Image Raquel R.
«The profound silence of the nocturnal hours has
always been one of the factors that impressed him the most in those lone night
incursions, but in order to fully benefit from that experience, he needed to
empty his head from all the gibberish talk that had been overpowering his
thoughts and allow this peaceful state, resulting from the absence of noise, to
impregnate his mind, like a sponge gladly welcomes the liquid element which
will transform its barren matter into a fertile receptacle of life.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story
number 11
«A few times in my life
I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence
drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp
and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into
existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like
everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back
to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant
to be.»
Christopher Isherwood
Photo Raquel R.
