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Last Night of the Pirate Radio
Héctor Salcedo
Bogotá, 1987: an underground station broadcasts its final four hours before the authorities cut the signal.
Shared themes:Historical fiction
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The Lime's Bite
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“The plague has sealed the city. The half-dead man who falls against his door carries the seal of the man who ruined him.”
In Odría, a port city sealed off by plague, Valerio survives in a garret washing shrouds in quicklime for the very Veedor, Cosme Almansa, who threw him out of the Curia's archives. One evening, just before curfew, Tadeo collapses against his door, half dead, with a single boot and a bundle hiding a lead seal of the Veeduría General. Hiding him means damnation; handing him over, too.
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Episode 01
~7 min
The Vinegar Streak
“Purity is no virtue in Odría; it is only fear boiled down with enough vinegar.”
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Episode 02
~9 min
The Bread and the Crusts
“Two silent men inside a whitewashed room weigh heavier than a regiment of the living out there.”
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Episode 03
~8 min
The Weight of the Ash Staff
“He who lives with his hands buried in lime stops paying homage to those who wear clean velvet.”
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Episode 04
~5 min
Ash in the Fingertips
“The air coming through the broken door bites like salt spray, but at least it no longer smells like a burial.”
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