Monday, August 27, 2018

Life Without Water: Sweaty, Smelly, and Furious in Caracas



There are few places as chaotic or dangerous as Venezuela. “Life in Caracas” is a series of short stories that seeks to capture the surreal quality of living in a land in total disarray. When I’m lucky, a trickle flows through my apartment building’s rickety pipes. When I’m really lucky, they deliver as much as 30-straight minutes worth of H2O. That’s enough to fill up the 200-or-so-gallon tank in my kitchen and trigger a celebration. I’ll do something crazy and run the water until it gets really hot before I jump into the shower. More…

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