Quema de huesos

A woman in full maturity searches in her memories - school days, the family environment, the games, the activities of adolescence... - the traces of her personality. She accepts the gains and losses that come with the passage of time. She knows how to distinguish what can be asked of life and what cannot. She has learned to take the chestnuts out of the fire. She assumes the absence of those who are missing. She does not believe in the absolute value of love, although she grants him one last chance. She knows the hopes and fears of other women. She retains the breath of irony. And she finds in solitude the impulse to continue growing. She sometimes has to make a bonfire, watching the wind so that what should be beneficial does not harm us. That is what the protagonist of these twenty-one stories is dedicated to, to burn through writing the bones accumulated throughout life: credits and debits, successes and mistakes, legitimate and illegitimate steps. Because writing is burning stubble. A ritual fire, of course: no writing can burn life.