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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 15
The blade of Alonso’s ancient sword was forged of Toledo steel and could still part a hair down the middle. Used during the Reconquista from the Moors and in the imperial wars that followed, it had...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 14
Once inside, he’d close his door and flop down on his bed beneath the gothic ikon meant to bring solace to all who lay there. To the right of it was the shelf where he kept his toilet kit with his ...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 13
Halfway through the Spanish history lecture Winterside lapsed into a state of not hearing or caring—of wanting to crawl into the deepest, quietest cave ever dug by the North Korean People’s Army—on...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 12
Doña Celeste shook Satry awake. “It’s your father, child.”
Satry sat up in bed. “Tell him to go away.”
Satry’s father, Don Francisco Cordero, owned Alcantara Construction, which was building the Am...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode11
Unsure he was awake, or whether what was happening was just beginning or happening at all, he felt warmth and her moving again and he was chasing something that was always half the previous distanc...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 10
The two friends had suffered during the war. Meanwhile, Alonso had lived safe on his mother’s farm. That he’d not fought in the war still made Alonso feel guilty, though he’d been six years old at ...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 9
It began to mist as Alonso led his brigade of Invisible Guardians from the bull ring back to Cava Baja. Elated by news of the two Basque Exiles, he invented a cheering throng as he marched across P...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 7
Satry’s apartment was on the top floor of her building and each of the rooms opened onto a long corridor built around three sides of an interior patio. The living room floor was littered with books...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 7
Alonso consulted the chart of prices at the Sevilla metro booth while behind him, a long line of knowers of such trivia as the prices of tickets to particular metro stops in Madrid, all trying not ...
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Winterside's Wanderyear, Episode 6
“Is that his son?” Winterside asked about the boy.
“His lazarillo, the one who guides him. See how big his eyes are? Because he has to see for two.”
“How can he stay out this late?”
“This is when t...
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