Fruit Smoothie
Translated by Marvin Najarro Tanita always craved a fruit smoothie, which was an unattainable dream during her childhood. The blenders were those things they talked about in the radio commercials when people tuned in to Porfirio Cadenas, “El Ojo de Vidrio”. Tanita remembers how exciting it was to listen to the rain falling on the radio, the thunders shaking the tin roof of the house, and the sound of the horse’s hooves walking on the cobblestones, clip-clop, clip-clop, clip…. She imagined that all that happened in a remote village, and her mind wandered among the main roads, the red guava trees and the…