Merde: Dispatches from Nowhere

a continuation from The Long Fall Between the Cracks

Dispatch: Unmasked and Exiled: The Life of a Censored Writer

I can barely articulate the tumultuous experience of those early pandemic days in Spain and France during that first bewildering year and a half. It was a swift and suffocating dissolution of the mundane into a realm both alien and authoritarian. In Spain, my landlord, with a brazen disregard f…