Based on what I’ve been reading, when you started working at Nokia a mobile phone cost four thousand dollars, and only a millionaire or a madman could buy one. I’m sure you remember. I couldn’t even imagine such a thing existed — only in science fiction films. Some…
When we met in college I knew we would be great friends for life. You, Olivia, Mariela and I were inseparable. We even started to look alike, my mother used to say. We coordinated our classes so we could go together, went out to drink cheap wine in the parks…
This is a shadow letter, the reverse of the letter I will actually send you. The other one says that your father and I are doing fine, that the new neighbourhood isn't bad, that your sisters are back at university at last, after being away for a full…
I am writing to you from the second floor up to the third. If I ever dare, I would have to bring you this letter folded in an envelope and slip it under your door, with no need to sign it. We are neighbors; you already know who I am.…
Today I have no letter from one imaginary person to another, but I have one for you, whoever is reading me. I do not know who you will be — I suspect someone who knows me in real life, who pictures me with my small brown hands, hunched over the keyboard…
It is possible that you do not remember me, but it is also possible that you have been desperately searching for me all these years — who can say. We met thirty years ago (thirty!) working in the same office, doing more or less the same thing. It is such a…
Right now you're probably thinking you made a mistake by innocently adding me on Instagram. Yes, Lucho, it was probably a mistake, because now this letter is in your hands. All of this will seem out of place and sudden to you, but what did you expect from…
I am sending you this letter from very far away, from another life. Who knows where I will be when you learn what happened to you. Eight years ago I arrived at your house, with all my little papers in order. The references from several wealthy families, and an impeccable…