Birds Made of Coal

A0 Spanish · 2 min read · Free

In the grey city, every scrap of paper goes into the fire. Tonight, one white book is going home instead — hidden inside an old man's coat.

A0 Spanish · 3 min read

Millaray is sixteen years old and has never seen a bird — not even once. Fortunato has ten of them hidden inside his coat, drawn in coal, and tonight one tiny scrap of paper is about to end up in the wrong hands.

A0 Spanish · 2 min read

The inspector has found the scrap of paper with the little coal bird, and now she is opening every bag and every coat in the furnace hall. Fortunato's notebook is still inside his.

A0 Spanish · 3 min read

Every scrap of paper in the city must burn. But nobody ever wrote a law about doors. On a grey morning, Fortunato walks to work through a street full of impossible birds.