The Man with His Back Turned
The Man With His Back Turned by Agustín Cadena Daniela bought the mirror at the flea market one Saturday when she was passing by in her older brother's car, and for no other reason but to make him mad, insisted on stopping. The mirror was 12 inches long by 8 inches wide at its base, and the upper part was finished with a Gothic arch. The brass frame was scratched and dented in places, but in general still pretty, with vine reliefs and floral motifs. The mirror itself was rose-tinted, an antique glass in which things were reflected as if blurred by the mist of the years, as if they were reflections from the past, from long ago, not from today. Dani loved it. She didn't have enough money to buy the mirror, but what she had was enough so that the vender agreed to hold it for her. When she got home, she begged her father for a little, asked her grandmother for a loan and then at school sold some CDs to a few of her classmates. The next Saturday she went to get the mirro...