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Stories by Marga Ortigas

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There’s No Place Like Rome: Travels with My Father, Travolta, & Mickey Mouse

Los Angeles / the United States Marga OrtigasMarch 27, 2019 Places

“BAD TRIP” I was eight years old the first time I visited the United States.  I didn’t want to be there. Italy was my preferred …

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Mars Over Baghdad: Miracles in the Desert

Iraq Marga OrtigasNovember 6, 2018 Places

ASTROLOGICAL APPOINTMENT 3a.m., 27th of August 2003.  That was when Mars would’ve been visible from Baghdad. Yes — the planet Mars — seen from the …

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A Twenty-Year-Old Letter from London: Memories, Midlife, and the Millennium

the United Kingdom Marga OrtigasAugust 30, 2018 Places Prose

Let me paint you a scene — it is still one of my favourites in the world: I am sitting in the Royal Festival Hall …

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Between Borders: Dualities, Wine, and Baja California

Mexico / Valle de Guadalupe Marga OrtigasApril 19, 2018 Places

Star sign Twenty-seven-year old Violeta is “sort of” an Aries.  It’s among the first things she tells you about herself – that she was born …

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Papi’s Puzzles: Love, Loss, & Logic

the Philippines Marga OrtigasApril 9, 2018 Prose

My father did the crossword every evening when he came home from work.  I think solving puzzles helped him wash away the day. He’d fold …

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Stargazing in the Yukon: A Journey Within

Canada / Yukon Territory Marga OrtigasJanuary 17, 2018 Places

In the stillness of a winter morning, I cast my hearing to the brittle dawn. The night was silver and dusted in diamonds. The frost …

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Once Upon a Time in Lesvos: A Humanitarian Crisis with No End in Sight

Greece Marga OrtigasNovember 25, 2017 Places

Time seemed a different creature on Skala Eresou, a small coastal village on the western side of Lesvos.  Days flowed one into the other unhurriedly, …

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Sandcastles by the Seine: A Fable of Love and Longing

France Marga OrtigasOctober 9, 2017 Prose

This was supposed to be the beginning of the beginning. But I don’t know where to start. Ten years ago?                         London. A dark …

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“Sami del Samwich” and Surviving the Colombian Drug Cartels: (Part 3)

Colombia Marga OrtigasSeptember 22, 2017 People

Part 1: Genesis Part 2: Exodus Ecclesiastes Samuél Vásquez Martín checked his watch.  It got dark earlier than expected as storm clouds loomed where the …

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“Sami del Samwich” and Surviving the Colombian Drug Cartels: (Part 2)

Colombia Marga OrtigasSeptember 18, 2017 People

Part 1: Genesis The Exodus Samuél Vásquez Martín, aka Sami, was eventually offered what he saw as his ticket out of the drug-cartel-dominated world in …

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