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Elastic Time: Telling One Minute in Twenty Pages and Twenty Years in a Single Paragraph

By Marina Torres

A clear guide to bending time on the page: turning a single minute into a chapter through focus, body, and syntax, and folding twenty years into one paragraph with precise anchors, steady rhythm, and a throughline of desire that holds it together.

13 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Novel / Novelette / Novella / Short story

The Meddling Narrator: When It Works and When It Wrecks Your Story

By Marina Torres

A plainspoken field guide for anyone who feels the urge to comment from the doorway of a scene and wants to know when that presence adds clarity, when it steals air, and how to train a voice that can step in for context, irony, ethics, or warmth without pulling the reader out of the room.

13 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Short story

Start Late, Let the Reader Infer

By Marina Torres

How to drop into a scene already in motion, feed only the needed clues, and earn a cleaner, stronger short-story opening without hand-holding.

5 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction / Short story

A Good Ending Without Tricks: small clues to close a short story without a forced twist

By Marina Torres

A compact field guide to endings that feel inevitable rather than engineered, built from rhythm, image, and one earned decision instead of a last-minute reveal.

4 min read · English edition

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What you didn’t know about Edgar Allan Poe

By Oriol Puig

A portrait of Edgar Allan Poe built from hidden details that reveal his passions, struggles, and contradictions beyond the gothic myth.

8 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Short story

Hans Christian Andersen and the art of saying the obvious

By Oriol Puig

A direct reading of Andersen’s tale that shows the invisible cloth as fear turned into ritual, the parade as collective consent, and the child’s voice as an ordinary sentence that shifts silence into relief.

11 min read · English edition

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How to Create Characters in the Style of Poe

By Marina Torres

A practical guide to writing characters in Poe’s style: rational voices that inspire distrust, bodies turned into instruments of obsession, and settings that mirror the inner fractures of their protagonists.

12 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Short story

How Poe Builds Tension in The Fall of the House of Usher

By Gabriel Montes

A journey through the invisible score with which Poe sustains panic in The Fall of the House of Usher: a rational narrator narrowing the frame, an architecture that foretells its end, a tempo that turns waiting into fear, and a choreography of echoes and silences that makes the collapse inevitable.

13 min read · English edition

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Franz Kafka: between minimal life and overflowing literature

By Gabriel Montes

Franz Kafka lived a quiet, constrained life yet left behind a body of work that exposed the absurd and fragile condition of modern existence.

5 min read · English edition

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Tension without dialogue: how to carry drama with gestures and pauses

By Marina Torres

How to sustain tension and drama through gestures, pauses and actions. Silence shifts meaning into subtext and onstage choreography. Rhythm, objects and space become tools to tell without saying.

14 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition