Escrevida - Texts from Laura Esteves, brazilian writer.

The Dog’s Dilemmas

On a night in São Paulo, the public humiliation of a drunk reveals more about the character of the spectators than the victim.

In the roulette of favela violence, surviving another day is the jackpot, while death collects its dividends from the neighbors.

An English class monitor transforms a fatherless boy's Father's Day by suggesting he write a letter to Batman.

Over a navy blue ocean. A fierce storm unleashed its fury. The waters, being turned into foam. The waves confident, for what they could not know

Horses of the same color and identical riders, with a myopic tunnel vision, trot without will toward the only inevitable destination.

Rodolfo, a green-skinned elderly man, discovers the meaning of life at 70, but meets a tragic end when trying to share it with humanity.

A singular letter lost in libraries and planets can still make noise and awaken your imagination.

In the monitor's reflection. The daily timid fear. It is the hatred reflected from pain. Healthy and perfect anonyms. With a sore loser complex

Considerable blasphemy, but not in vanity. It wore down my anatomy consumed by apathy. Your humanity became my center of gravity

In a certain light, You look like paradise. And when the summer air. Dances through your hair. It makes me think of Eden