"They took out the remaining pieces of his broken teeth.

When he left the hospital, he looked at the photo, posted on the front gate, of a boy some Nazis had put in a coma. The boy was the same age as he was and smiled at the camera.

He bought a couple of boiled eggs and a cup of coffee on the street. He returned to the hostel. No one had noticed anything. He lay down on the bloodstained mattress and slept. The painkillers made him hallucinate."

From the story Black Sand, by Álvaro Bisama. Translated by Robin Myers.


See also:
[Luciano Lamberti] [Giovanna Rivero] [Carlos Yushimito]