Afrocuban Stories

"ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ꜱᴛᴏᴘ ᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ. ɪ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʜᴇᴀʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀᴅ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴀᴄʜɪɴɢ." Alex Reyes was always the shadow at Will's back. The protector no one else could be. But even he couldn't stop the world from breaking around them. When they returned to Hawkins, the Upside Down didn't stay behind. It clung to their skin, so they clung to each other. They survived what no one else could, and that darkness knows their names. One carries light. One carries shadow. And between them is something alive. Something they brought back. Something that lives inside them now. And no one, maybe not even themselves, can say what it means. [LeftBehindTheDoor ©]

"I want to be like Uhura, but I'm too much like Spock." •••• Rita has only ever known how to fix cars, so the day she encounters a man in need of fixing, it isn't quite clear to her whether it is any of her business, or if she can do anything about it at all. The man's face is unmistakable, but broken and shadowed. The fact that it is none other than the late President Kennedy's brother that she catches in one of his most vulnerable moments adds to her uncertainty. But breaking through the barrier of having the worst social skills, Rita will end up being the only tool with the magic touch to fix Bobby Kennedy. Eventually, it becomes her life's mission to build him up again. However, it will require more than a fresh coat of paint to make his sad eyes shine brightly again, because one cannot undo the past. •••• "Mira ahí, ese muchacho de ojos tristes." "No es ningún muchacho. Es Bobby Kennedy."