Inside You Are Someone Else Now
“We came to this country for a fresh start, but there was nothing fresh about the way we were treated.”
From Olé, by Ángela Álvarez Vélez
“His country changes and, as he moves further away from his past, he no longer knows what is waiting.”
From Happy Birthday, by Peter Dale
“The boy had one dream and one plan and three days after his twentieth birthday, he decided it was time to act.”
From A Really Small Thing, by Victoria Kellaway
“A foreign creature which had absolutely no business being in suburbia was invading Albert’s property without a care in the world. How dare it!”
From An Ordered World, by Tony Cleaver
“Everyone ran inside their homes to seek refuge, like abused dogs scurrying away with tails between their legs when their master enters the house.”
From Northbound, Southbound, by Ana Carolina Pereira
“You named him Rolo and you love him and today will be his last day on Earth.”
From Rolo’s Gift, by Delaney Turner
“I’d like to point out that homelessness came before drugs, and hopelessness came before either of those.”
From Unleashed, by Ángela Álvarez Vélez
“He had always felt different from others, thinking that when he left his homeland, he also left behind an essential part of who he really was.”
From Just Breathe, by Juan Manuel Rodríguez Bocanegra
“I know there is nothing I can do. Part of me wishes I had never witnessed any of this, and that makes me feel like a coward.”
From The Bus, by Daniela Restrepo Ortiz
“I do not like the look on Simon’s face. I have the feeling this conversation is heading in a direction I’m not going to like.”
From Soondubu, by Vincent Pollard
“Whenever I visit the home of a Colombian living abroad, I play this secret game where I always look for the chiva.”
From Golden Scars: Silvia Noriega’s Story, by Ana Carolina Pereira
“Pato, amorcito, can we please go back to the States soon?”
From Deceit, by Clara Irene Reyes
“You were different, but you weren’t just different, you were extremes and contradictions, a living oxymoron.”
From On the Edge, by Peter Dale
“Temporary and transient because everyone who lives that way in London always ends up somewhere else.”
From What Goes Faster than the Train?, by Victoria Kellaway
“Two things that still mark me out as ‘not from here’ though, are that I’m not afraid to voice my opinions and I often look strangers in the eye.”
From Lost & Found, by Vincent Pollard
“Outplayed, outclassed, he was out, out, out! He had finally met his match with the Sorcerer from Sri Lanka, the Conjurer from Colombo, Stig our crowning hero!”
From Cupid’s Arrow, by Tony Cleaver
“To leave and to never return. It seems that flying has got everything to do with that, with filling one space and emptying another, but who wouldn’t want that?”
From Turbulence, by Juan Manuel Rodríguez Bocanegra
“And so I set out to live this adventure. I do it for me and the fulfilled dream I owe to myself. But I also do it for you and the unspoken promise I made in your name.”
From Dear Paris, by Daniela Restrepo Ortiz
“All your senses will flare up in the most unexpected moments, and you will be tempted to come back, but don’t. Don’t look back.”
From Nostalgia, by Clara Irene Reyes
