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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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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Poetry in the age of the scroll: how the poem changes when it is born on a screen

By Oriol Puig

An essay on how vertical reading reshapes the pulse of poetry, asking for precision in every cut and images that endure beyond the feed, so the screen becomes another home where language can breathe with its readers.

11 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novelette / Novella / Short story

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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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

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Fiction / Novella

The Architecture of The Metamorphosis: How Kafka Builds the Monster

By Gabriel Montes

The architecture of The Metamorphosis: three acts, thresholds and repetitions narrowing choices to the end, with Grete and the household as engines of change under debt and shame.

12 min read · English edition

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Fiction / Novelette / Novella / Short story

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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Fiction / Novella

The Metamorphosis: Psychological analysis of Gregor Samsa

By Oriol Puig

An exploration of the emotions, fears and inner transformations experienced by Gregor Samsa after his unexpected metamorphosis. A reading that unpacks the anxiety, guilt and isolation running through Kafka’s work.

12 min read · English editionSpanish editionFrench editionItalian edition

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

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