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Words That Travel

Palabras que viajan

Three words at a time — that's how a retired officer has kept a hidden woman alive for two years. In one careless afternoon of gossip, librarian Nubia Cárdenas may have spent them all.

Part 2 of 3 in The Tuesday Cipher

«El libro no está». Nubia lo soltó antes de que Fredy Osorio terminara de sacudirse la lluvia del abrigo. Era miércoles, no jueves, y sin embargo ahí estaba él, a las diez en punto, con la cara de quien ha dormido mal.

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