A 4-part Spanish story series
The Mirror of Unlived Lives
El espejo de las vidas no vividas
- Part 1: The Mirror Without a Face
B1 Spanish · 5 min read
The antique dealer sold Salomé the enormous old mirror for almost nothing, and he smiled far too long as she carried it away. Now the glass refuses to show her face at all; it shows a twilight city of paper birds, and the powerful woman ruling it looks exactly like her.
- Part 2: Grandmother's Other Half
B1 Spanish · 4 min read
Fifty years ago, Salomé's grandmother cut herself in half. The half she abandoned is still alive on the other side of the glass — and her twilight world is running out of time.
- Part 3: The Glassworks by the River
B1 Spanish · 4 min read
By three in the morning the mirror is gone, and Salomé's grandmother has finally stopped pretending she can't do magic. Fifty years of silence end in a stolen taxi ride to the ruined factory where it all began.
- Part 4: Two Halves of One Life
B1 Spanish · 4 min read
Fifty stolen years can leave a body in a single second. In the abandoned glassworks of Cali, a grandmother finally answers the voice that has called her through the glass for half a century.