Contributions by Audrey Hall
Audrey Hall is a former Fulbright scholar who recently moved from Buenos Aires to Cleveland, OH. She earned a degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2013. She has translated various scholarly articles, short stories, children’s books, and museum catalogs from Spanish into English, along with an as-yet-unpublished collection of stories by Silvina Ocampo.
Trees at Night
Ramiro Sanchiz
Translated by Audrey Hall
On the outskirts of Punta de Piedra, there is a bar a good distance beyond the last line of houses. From the untidy plain arises what is essentially a cube of gray concrete with small windows and a parking lot. Actually, to simulate the impression it always made on me when I looked at it—with the houses of Punta de Piedra in the distance and the plain stripped down to what the universe must have looked like hundreds of millions of years ago—I would have to resort to a simple, coarse, improbable image: an art nouveau building on some remote, uninhabited planet.
My grandfather used to go round there on Friday nights, but I wasn’t allowed to go with him. So one day in February 1990, my friend Marcos and I hopped on our bikes … Read More »
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