A descent into the cellar of fear, where certainties crack and truth throbs beneath the damp wood. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez HoyLunes – The house breathed in silence. The wind from the Strait scratched the shutters with a long howl. Margarita had gone to bed a while ago, although Youssef sensed she would not sleep. He wouldn’t either. He…
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The Soup Tureen VI. The House of the Rock
In this sixth installment of “The Soup Tureen”, the story delves into the shadows of the Rock of Gibraltar. Lucía is torn from her home and confined between the murmur of the sea and the damp walls of a foreign house. From there, between threat and faith, the voice of a daughter tries to reach her mother. What once seemed…
Read MoreThe Soup Tureen IV: The Visit
A mother, a stranger, and a soup tureen: the invisible border between fear and hope. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez. HoyLunes – The young man stopped at the doorway, shoulders hunched, as if crossing that threshold might hurl him into an unknown abyss. Are you Lucía’s mother? he asked softly from the doorway. Margarita eyed him with suspicion: that exotic, youthful…
Read MoreThe Soup Tureen III: The Suspicion
A mother on the edge of the abyss discovers that her daughter’s letter hides a secret, and that emptiness can also be the beginning of an unexpected struggle. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez HoyLunes – The hours, slow, felt like stones in her pockets. Each tick-tock was a sharp blow against Margarita’s chest as she wandered through the house aimlessly,…
Read MoreThe Soup Tureen II: Bitter Shore
Between ash and salt, Margarita learns that pain is not always buried: sometimes it remains standing, watching from a soup tureen. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez HoyLunes – Margarita Lafuente and her family left León as one abandons a wounded animal, with sores on their hands and scars in their hearts that still festered. When they arrived in Algeciras, it felt…
Read MoreThe Soup Tureen
A silent tribute to those who today have lost everything in the wildfires that are ravaging Spain. A story about the fragility of memory, the grief left by the flames, and the symbolic power of a soup tureen that, against every fire, resists as the last refuge of life, affection, and family heritage. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez HoyLunes –…
Read MoreThe Scent of a Dream
When someone you loved returns in a dream, perhaps it’s not nostalgia: perhaps it’s a compass. By Nuria Ruiz Fdez HoyLunes – Sometimes, the people who are no longer with us return in our dreams to remind us that life is not just about breathing, but about daring. This is the story of such an encounter, of that hidden…
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