SEVENTEEN TIMES

SEVENTEEN TIMES

You don't fight with texts. You let them approach you like a wild animal emerging from the trees and you stand calmly on your knees. You lower your soul and change breaths. You extend your hand without a word, lest you caress it. If you scare it, it will run away, if you scare it, it will swallow you. [...]

Only there you will find you. Where you will write without hesitation.
Where you talk about them, you talk to us about everything.
And we will read what is left; not what you so eloquently imply.
Only for those who found their time and watered except your soul and our breaths.
— To exist, you bastard; but to write.

SEVENTEEN TIMES

Twenty-seven narratives that begin with texts and end with writing. A whole world between them, that no matter how many times you write about it, the blank pages are not enough to believe it.
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Giorgos Spyrakis is a graduate of the "Creative Writing" Graduate Program of the University of Western Macedonia and works as a lawyer in Athens.
He writes short stories and novels, articles on sites and blogs, looking for something from our mind games.
He is the scientific manager and coordinator for the creative writing department at Korydallos prisons, where he teaches creative writing to student-prisoners.
His first collection of short stories is published under the title: "Pequeñas Fobias - Small Phobias". The novel entitled "e.sy" [2016] is also published by LIBRON Publishing.