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 / Novel

Letters Inside Novels: Why they work and how they set the rhythm

By Marina Torres

A brief, practical look at why epistolary chapters refresh pace, deepen voice, and give the reader clean beats for suspense, intimacy, and time jumps without breaking the spell.

6 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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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

The Minimal Poem: the fascination with the one-line verse and its immediate effect on memory

By Patricia Vila

A short defense of the one line poem as a precise instrument for memory and attention, where rhythm does the carrying, editing does the caring, and the reader brings the rest so that a single breath can hold a room.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Why reading one poem in five languages means reading five different poems

By Patricia Vila

An argument for translation as creative authorship that favors the poem’s felt impact over literal mirroring, inviting readers to compare five versions side by side and notice how each language remakes cadence, image, and cultural weight while keeping the same emotional center alive.

6 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novel

1984 by George Orwell: how reality is manufactured

By Gabriel Montes

A close reading of 1984 that follows how power trims language, trains memory to accept revision, and domesticates fear, while arguing that small acts of attention and ordinary tenderness still make a real breach.

12 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Flash fiction

Micro-stories: why tiny texts pull us in and what they say about the speed of our time

By Marina Torres

An essay on why very short fiction matches the rhythms of our days without flattening them, how a few lines can carry voice, place, and conflict, and why our hunger for tiny forms reveals both the fragility of attention and the desire to slow down inside a fast world.

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

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