Three new portraits go live this weekend, one each morning at 11am. The Holographer’s Atlas is part of The Memory Cartographer — a series written in the author’s own voice, not Elena’s. No fiction here. Only memory. Real people, real places, real prices paid. Each piece is named after the person it maps. Friday —…
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The Holographer’s Atlas – Andrea
Two eyes, just above the water. That was all. The rest of him was under, still. I noticed them because they were staring at me. Returning the gaze, I remember thinking: what a pretty girl. The eyes, the dark curls floating around them, the suggestion of a face just below the line. Then he stood…
The Holgrapher’s Atlas – Allanu
The evening the two managers finally cornered me to say so, they were interrupted. I was being called to the office of the gerente.I climbed the stairs. The big man himself was holding a landline telephone against his chest, the way you hold something you’ve briefly set aside. He looked at me — one quick…
The Holographer’s Atlas – Rafael
This time the reasons I weren’t were simple: get away from the one I was trying to leave, get back the one I had left for him. Benidorm was where he would be, which wasn’t coincidence — it was the only reason that mattered. Rafael I had met the summer before. Dark, androgynous, the kind…
Author’s Note
Guido and Iliya were not an interlude. They were the bridge — the one the reader needs to cross to understand what happens when Elena the anthropologist finally stops moving and the writer who invented her steps into the light. That bridge has a name now. The Holographer’s Atlas. It stands between Alkebulan and the…
Benidorm 1989-Part3 (COMC Interlude)
A true‑story interlude from The Holographer’s Atlas (COMC universe), set between Book VII and VIII. The two weeks became six because Madrileñas know how to make you feel chosen. Paloma and Cristina — had found me on the beach on day three, the way cats find the one person in the room who doesn’t want them. They…
Benidorm, 1989 – Part I (COMC Interlude)
A true‑story interlude from The Holographer’s Atlas (COMC universe), set between Book VII and VIII. I was nineteen. I want to say that first, before anything else, because nineteen explains a great deal and excuses nothing and is simply the truth of who was standing on that beach when Paloma said, estos son nuestros amigos italianos, and…
The C.O.M.C. Files 