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Short stories South American travel

Las Chicas del Helado Canela

Maria grew up on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the town of Copacabana.Of course Maria would have far preferred to be in school, but…

neilcoppenDecember 25, 2007

musings South American travel travel

Peru (part 1) Pageant of the Bizaare

Funny morning, stepped out of my hostel room only to be nearly trampled by two deranged llamas bolting down the cobbled streets, one frisky for…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

commentry South American travel travel

Bolivia (part 2) Above and Below

A visit to the Patosi Silver Mines in Bolivia, to get an alternative view of the state of things, proves both frightening and enlightening. A…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

South American travel travel

Bolivia (part 1) Part Dickens, Part Dr Seus

If not for the festive folk music, phycadellic salt pans, flamingo infested lakes, pits of sulphurous belching earth, I´d say im fond of Bolivia for…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

musings South American travel

Child of the Sun

To my unborn nephew/niece- but an inkling in your apache mammas belly.Whatever being you be- for at this point biology has not yet markated you…

neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007

musings South American travel travel

Of Impossible Yearning

Sunday morning and I sit on a bench in La-Paz , watch a Plaza market rising. Ignoring the persistence of shoe shine boys ( and…

neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007

Short stories South American travel

The Luckiest Man Alive

He did not flinch in bidding Paris his hometown adieu: far too petite, too pretentious to contain his irrepressibly itchy feet. At twenty ”“two he…

neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007

commentry South American travel travel

UP IN THE AIR ATHEISM

Finding Atheism a godzillon metres above the ground,on a SAA flight to San Paulo, might not be the most advisable of epiphanies to find yourself…

neilcoppenNovember 22, 2007

South American travel

PROLOUGE- a bracelet of saints

Yesterday on a subway in Buenos Aries, a ratty haired girl placed a plastic bracelet on my knee. A gift i thought, till her extended…

neilcoppenNovember 21, 2007

Short stories

SMOTHERING

“She's dead”, wails Elaine into the telephone “What?” replies Catherine, all mock shock and horror “Rosy,” she blubs uncontrollably, ”˜Rosy' “Dead?” “Yes” her mother sobs…

neilcoppenOctober 30, 2007

Las Chicas del Helado Canela

Peru (part 1) Pageant of the Bizaare

Bolivia (part 2) Above and Below

Bolivia (part 1) Part Dickens, Part Dr Seus

Child of the Sun

Of Impossible Yearning

The Luckiest Man Alive

UP IN THE AIR ATHEISM

PROLOUGE- a bracelet of saints

SMOTHERING

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