Short Stories

Monday, 6th April 2020 Will this be my turning point? A reflection by Lucia Ribeiro Kappauf For five weeks now, I’ve been living in a small cottage near Monchique. The marks left by the latest fire are still clearly visible. For me, living here means having little contact with the outside world. It means falling asleep at night to the croaking of mating frogs and waking up when the cock crows. My electricity is generated by the sun, and my water comes from a spring. It’s a completely new world for a young city girl like me. Would you like …

Sunday, 5th April 2020 100 Years of Solitude? Please accept this invitation from ECO123. As from today, each morning at breakfast time, you will receive an opinion piece written by one of our correspondents. Yes, every morning at eight o’clock, there will be a story from ECO123, published in this new format and waiting to be read by you. Every day. Every morning, my colleagues, Dina, Alexandre, Sue, Francisco, Leila, Sonya and I, as well as some of our independent international collaborators, will be offering you a short story: food for the soul in these times of the Covid-19 pandemic. …