Manuel is old. He finds a book that inspires him to return to the sea one more time. Will he fulfil his desire to emulate Santiago?
John has a lead a long and happy life, but the loses he has suffered with time have started to grow heavy on his weary heart. Everything reminds him of how happy he was in the past and also how lonely he is now, making each memory a bittersweet one.
Pointless instructions on medicine bottles, growing old and happiness. The author pokes fun at all three in this hilarious rant of an old man.
"The death ward always had a stench of mucus, pee and shit, barely covered by the pungent smell of antiseptics, but only that day I knew. That day, I was cursed." Part of growing up is finding the purpose of our life despite the ordeals it throws at us. This is a short, introspective story about a teenager who tries to understand the meaning of life and of death after witnessing a tragic event.
