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Salamanca 21 isn’t a real building. But it easily could be. Because everything that happens in it – or almost everything – resembles life too closely to be pure fiction. Sure, there are exaggerations, a few poetic licenses, the occasional dramatic twist… but if you’ve lived on this planet and paid even a little attention, you know that reality is often worse.
These stories were born out of the desire (and maybe the vice) to explore that strange dance between the so-called deadly sins and the virtues that supposedly counter them. But not as a priest would, or a life coach, or a self-help algorithm. There are no morals here. No guaranteed redemptions. What we have is people. People wanting what they can’t have, hiding what they won’t admit, and justifying what they already did – or are about to do.
Each chapter is anchored in a pair of concepts: a sin and its alleged opposing virtue. Gluttony and temperance. Envy and gratitude. Greed and generosity. And so on, until we reach that final duo where, I must confess, I wasn’t sure whether to keep writing or move out of the building.
Don’t expect uplifting parables. Expect contradictions. Neighbors who love and annoy. Who give and withhold. Who forgive and later demand payback. Who think they’re better than the rest – until they catch a glimpse of themselves in the bathroom mirror… just as the power goes out.
Why seven chapters, if sin has seven heads and virtue at least a thousand? Because we’re not writing the Bible. Or a spin-off of it. This isn’t a treatise. Just a collection of stories that – with any luck – might draw a crooked smile, spark a little discomfort, or inspire you to read a paragraph aloud to someone you live with… or quietly resent.
In the end, this book doesn’t aim to provide answers. Only to raise questions. Some uncomfortable. Some obvious. And others that seem unimportant… until a neighbor moves out, another dies, and you start to wonder if apartment numbers really are random – or if someone up there is sending messages, one per floor.
Welcome to Salamanca 21. Take the stairs. The elevator tends to break down just when you need it most.
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