from ‘Wind From The East’ by Matthew Asprey:
Světlana and I took a train to Piraeus and a ferry to Aegina. The sun was high in a cloudless sky. The port was packed with dirty fishing boats and piled nets. I bought a pineapple. People zoomed past on motor scooters. In one of the shops by the waterfront I found Dimitris Papadimitriou’s soundtrack for Anastasia, my favourite mid-1990s slow-as-watching-paint-dry Greek soap opera. It’s the one where the girl two-times the father Pavlos with the son Alexandros – or is it the son with the father? Anyway, the shop owner was thrilled. He blew the dust off the CD case and said, “Yes, this was very good show!”
Aegina, 2008. Photo by Matthew Asprey
‘Wind From The East’ is tale #21 from the Stolchlickoff Scrapbooks, available in the paperback edition of:
