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Lingofable

A 4-part Spanish story series

What Hunger Sees

Lo que ve el hambre

  1. Part 1: No Tracks in the Mud

    C1 Spanish · 8 min read · Free

    Sixteen years old, starving on day four of a fasting vigil he doesn't even believe in, Eleodoro watches a jaguar settle at the edge of his firelight and stay until dawn. Come morning, the mud where it sat holds no tracks at all.

  2. Part 2: The Orange Ribbons

    C1 Spanish · 6 min read

    A jaguar that leaves no footprints has just led a starving boy straight to a trap made of very real wire.

  3. Part 3: Fifty Years Without a Jaguar

    C1 Spanish · 5 min read

    There is a confession the old curandero has carried for half a century, and by tradition it can only be spoken to someone who has already seen 'his own.' Eleodoro, kneeling beside him, is not at all sure he qualifies.

  4. Part 4: Fifty Meters from the Fire

    C1 Spanish · 6 min read

    A grieving boy finishes his dead grandfather's vigil in an empty forest, and a camera left among the trees comes back with one photograph nobody can explain away.