Elena
It was April. They came in the early afternoon at their usual hour and ordered four gins, two each, to mark the end of their shift and the beginning of endless idle talk at my kiosk. I poured four generous shots and placed them on the counter. It was quite low, and they had to…
Just a day off
Wearing his white trainers, polo shirt and clean jeans, he enters the waiting room and inhales the smell of disinfectant mixed with the lavender scent-sticks on one of the windows. Half an hour later, his blood starts to flow through a tube into a machine that separates a yellowish liquid from blood cells. The reclining…
