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The Time I Led A Code at the Airport

The strangest thing I see is the transition between deadness and aliveness, the way this man’s face gets filled again as though with something. Continue reading The Time I Led A Code at the Airport

irismonicavargasDecember 4, 2021December 4, 2021Leave a comment

Una abuelita suicida

Crónica, por Iris Mónica Vargas Había decidido tomar un rato para contemplar el mar, y me detuve en aquella playa por ser la más cercana a donde me encontraba. Buscaba un poco de serenidad en la tarde de un día que había estado lleno de eventualidades. En la noche llovería muy fuerte. Por ahora las nubes engordaban lentamente, se pintaban de negro y picaban al … Continue reading Una abuelita suicida

irismonicavargasOctober 3, 2021December 3, 2021Leave a comment

Little White Lie

She was desperate to remember… she was scared by the certainty that time would take with it the details of him that still lived in her mind, and that so much life would be reduced to a stupid photograph. Continue reading Little White Lie

irismonicavargasMay 10, 2021June 15, 2021Leave a comment

Lidia

Cuando teníamos seis años, Lidia existía. Continue reading Lidia

irismonicavargasJanuary 26, 2021January 27, 2021Leave a comment

Mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

First I said nothing. Then, “Sure Ma, I’ll do it.” I waited a beat. “But don’t you think we will be suspicious, running out of here at two a.m., you in your robe, carrying a lung machine?” She didn’t think so. Continue reading Mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird

irismonicavargasNovember 12, 2020November 12, 20201 Comment

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Literature, Medicine, & Everything Else That Makes Us Human

Stethoscopes & Pencils (Lápices y estetoscopios) es una iniciativa literaria, nacida en Puerto Rico, para contar historias importantes sobre nuestra condición humana mediante la exploración de las intersecciones entre la ciencia y el arte de la medicina, el pensamiento filosófico del humanismo, y la literatura.

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Stethoscopes & Pencils is a literary collaborative through which to tell stories that explore our human condition  via the intersections between science and the art of medicine, humanism and literature.

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