The Teacups
My mother got herself a German boyfriend and pretty soon things got serious so we ended up moving from Spain to Germany. From Arroyo de la Miel to Kiel. It was …
Floating
At summer camp I met a kid who’d been in a coma and could float around his hospital room. He ended up there because one day his uncle went crazy, grabbed …
The Quest for the Adidas Torsion ZX 8000
I had this close friend I ran with every day. We trained on a track behind our school, and one day while doing laps he told me incredible news. Adidas had just …
Freddy Krueger's Glove
In the eighties, horror movies were everything. Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and a thousand more. My room was covered with pictures of zombies, …
DJ Stories
A friend and I had become obsessed with electronic music and wanted to be professional DJs. I was “DJ X” because of the drug Ecstasy, and my friend …
The Beggar Woman of New York
There’s nothing worse than seeing a beggar cry. I’ve lived in Málaga, Madrid, Prague, Germany, and Mumbai, but nowhere did I see more crying beggars …