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‘Villa Intemperie’ from the flash fiction anthology Desahuciados. Crónicas de la Crisis (2013), by Juan Antonia Masoliver Ródenas

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  • Megan Berkobien

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Berkobien, M., (2017) “‘Villa Intemperie’ from the flash fiction anthology Desahuciados. Crónicas de la Crisis (2013), by Juan Antonia Masoliver Ródenas”, Absinthe: World Literature in Translation 21. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/absinthe.9526

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2017-02-28

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Translated by Megan Berkobien

© 2013 Ediciones Traspiés

At dusk a group of armed men, like those from earlier that morning, ordered us to leave the house at once. We dragged the bed behind us as we left and, upon reaching a vacant lot, we settled there, in a house without walls, doors, and windows, roofless, too: what we came to call Villa Intemperie. In the middle of the night my two brothers, both policemen, arrived and told us to move on. A housing block would soon be built. We took to the road again, toward the horizon, when suddenly Nadia began to cry; during one of those evictions, she couldn’t remember which, Nadia had forgotten her keys.