The Other Thursday
A scenery painter relives the day her closest collaborator announces a move. Each improved conversation brings her closer to a choice she cannot rehearse.
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Historias en inglés: Ficción literaria
Elige una historia. Lee en inglés, descubre el significado de las palabras en árabe y comprueba lo que has entendido.
The Minute After the Laugh
Mara's best joke wins her a chance at a theatre. When her flatmate sees what the audience has missed, she must choose what to tell in her next eight minutes.
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The Move She Remembered
After eighteen years away from the chessboard, Mara meets the opponent whose hurried departure once changed her life. A new game forces her to separate what she remembers from what she actually knows.
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A Place at the Front
Corin prepares the perfect opening for a civic enquiry centre. When residents arrive expecting decisions, his reassuring numbers and confident slogan become promises the clerks cannot fulfil. Writing an honest report proves less simple than admitting failure.
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The Dinner We Almost Served
Leo invites his former manager to dinner, hoping to make a difficult request seem effortless. A hidden draft exposes how much of her answer he has already decided.
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The Woman at the Edge
A photographer crops her mother from an old factory photograph. A second print reveals why the family remembers that afternoon differently—and whose words belong beside the picture.
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The Second Translation
Asked to revise her late father’s translation, Leila discovers that a smoother sentence can hide an important silence.
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An Atlas of Unchosen Roads
An impossible atlas offers Elias a profitable map of regret, until one visitor refuses the future he has drawn for her.
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