The Forgotten Ones

The Book Is Here! At Last!

The adventures of Julián and Orion will be available as ebook in Amazon, Lulu and the Apple Store (Julián would never forgive me if he wasn't there) and a paperback version for the traditional readers like Orion.

Why this change of heart in my policy of no-ebooks? Because reality is a bitch. Lulu takes about 3 weeks to print a single copy of the book and if we add to that our own postmen enthusiasm for his/her job, the waiting time to get your book might be about a month. A horrible customer experience, if you ask me. I really can't ask people to suffer it.

As usual, this is the paragraph where I beg you, gentle and kind reader, not to copy the book or to upload it to all those places we know it's wrong to visit. It would be very nice if you can rate the novel or leave a comment; that always make the writers' lives better.

We will continue to publish the remaining chapters here.

Two Brothers

Chapter 25

Edited by Higashi 

WHAT HAD BEEN INTENDED TO be a two-week stay became a month, then two months, and then the brothers lost track of time, content to be in each other’s company.

Julián loved her niece too much to go away, and the IKEA sofa wasn't as bad as he had thought. Carlos, on the other hand, was glad to have someone to look after Esperanza. He didn't trust the day care centre, and his little brother didn't look anymore like a manga ghoul or whatever he had been called at the time.

On the third month, Julián began to teach English at home, and Carlos let go of the day care centre and let the uncle look after his daughter when he was busy working. High season was back and young tourists had a penchant for attacking bulbs and sockets, driving Carlos up the wall at the many repairs that awaited him every morning.

Despite the increased stress of their new life together, the brothers didn’t fight. Of course, they would quarrel over the food or about who should pay the electricity bill, but it was nothing like before. In fact, they had started to like each other.

Nevertheless, Carlos thought that something did not fit into the equation. In theory, Julián was Koiranos' boyfriend, with all the privileges that entailed (like the money he didn't touch or the lawyers that would address him with the utmost respect), but the elder ‘lovebird’ himself never phoned or came visit, and his brother didn't seem to be worried about it.

‘Bizarre’ was the perfect word to describe his brother's love life.