El don de Rachel

When there is money, everything can be done and bought. However, certain things cannot be bought because their value is not material. In life, there are sometimes many situations that hurt and are easy to heal since they take a long time to accept them as they are. Because I think they are never forgotten since they are very deep and indelible scars.

Excerpt from El Niño de la Bola The next twelve years find Alarcón actively engaged in politics. Owing, however, to the instability of his political beliefs, he achieved no position of importance. He was a deputy to the Cortes in 1865, 1869, 1870 and 1871, and in 1876 he was elected Senator. In 1875 he entered the Council of State and was decorated in the same year with the Gran Cruz of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. In 1874 he resumed his literary labors and in 1876 he was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy. In 1874 appeared La Alpujarra and El Sombrero de tres picos, followed by El ...

Luis Antonio de Villena (Madrid, 1951) vive en su ciudad natal, donde estudió Filología Clásica y Románica. Desde muy joven se dedicó a la literatura. Ha cultivado ampliamente la poesía (desde Huir del invierno hasta Las herejías privadas), la narrativa (desde Amor Pasión hasta El bello tenebroso) y el ensayo (desde El libro de las perversiones hasta Caravaggio, exquisito y violento). Colabora en la Cadena Ser y en Radio Nacional de España.¿Será cierto que en Madrid nadie es de Madrid? Luis Antonio de Villena nació, se crió, estudió y vive en Madrid, con su paisaje y sus gentes. ...

Lucy is a bored and frustrated housewife; she has little or no fun and excitement in her life. She is home most days, cleaning and doing housework, her marriage to Ken epitomizing her frustration and need to change her life. To break away from the mundane, Lucy likes to fantasize — and even role play — her fantasies in secret dressing up sessions. After one of her special boudoir moments, a chance encounter takes Lucy on an unexpected journey to a place she has never heard of: the Sin Café. Once inside, she soon discovers a very different world to the one she knows, which not only...