Gates Of Ivory

It seemed to be an innocent present. A toy car, one of those that can move on their own for a few metres once you move their wheels. I played with it for a bit. The makeshift road was less than a metre long. Then it was the real soil. It was full of movable…

I got sexually involved with one of my cousins. He said that, in the view of the family, we both were already homosexuals: ‘come on, don’t you see. Even I am half way between being gay and normal, in our families’ eyes.’ And I found some sexuality in him that I had not seen before.…

I had done some unpaid jobs, in the usual office. They kept sending me off from one office to another. I had to go all dressed up, but I always wore old trousers and t-shirts. One day they made some trick on me and I got angry. I told them that I was leaving for…

It is the 2020s. The 14-M movement has spread stronger and the forces have gone own against it. I explain to some younger friends that the violence was already felt at the start in Saint Paul. We even saw horses in some of the first demonstrations. The media thought the occupations and demonstrations were picturesque…

I was some kind of ambassador, although no one’s job was clear, so it was OK for me not to know either. The diplomatic meeting was about different nations and regions giving each other presents, or they may have been tax payments, although who was paying whom was not clear either. Also how the tributes…

At the end of the day my mother was worried about how I was going to return home. I said: ‘Calm down, I have a bike’ or ‘I have the bike’. I went to the bike park and there I remembered that had left it at home, so today I could not go back by…

We were trying to help Bella, a famous singer, get out of some mess she had got herself into. Part of her trouble was her son. We helped her first, up to a point where she had to talk to some authorities, on her own. We went with her to the premises where she had…

I was part of an artist community in a huge city although in the process of getting out of it. A famous duo of comedians had a show in the venue where we had our performances. Neither our performances or theirs were televised from this venue. As well as this, one of the duo, the…

I was sent to apply at a boarding school that was situated in an island. The selection process was sperpentic and crazy. It seemed to me that we applicants were terrified, but the pupils who had been there longer, and even the staff, were more generally terrified. The main reason was the director of the…

Casoni had two bikes she wanted to fix. Then we could bike together. We fixed one of the bikes first and she asked me to try it. It was an old bike, newer than the other one but just as uncomfortable. It had the dropped, narrow handlebar of old race bikes. I did not quite…

I went away with some like-minded people to spend a few days of retirement. There was a priest with us too. Some one offered to show a specific film about God’s intervention in human history. Apparently it was a classic even in non religious, mainstream film making. It was an adaptation of a book that…

I was learning to play some new sports. It was not difficult, but it made me remember why I had played them when I had been little and gave up. Then it was the turn of tennis. For this one, I was made to make bigger efforts; it was as if I was training for…

I go to the computers room. There are computers that show some videos, functioning then more like a tv. The screens show scenes of what my friend is accused of. I try to analyse them and my friend and others come to use the computers too. I run away from there. My phone rings but…

I was travelling with a friend who could be Canimo, the redhead from secondary school. We were in the airport and we wanted to check when we were coming back. We had to check it while we were boarding our plane. We did not have much time from the time we could check up the…

After my fears in a previous dream, revolution kicked off. I had to go underground with a few other people. Internet had collapsed in part. We could no longer rely on it. We mainly went back to face to face communications, like in the time of history when telephones did not exist or were not…