Read Marina Burana’s story, “Soccer Sunday“, about a soccer-addicted grandmother, whose role to the protagonist, although not stereotypical, is at last fulfilling and enriching.
Marina Burana is an Argentinean writer born and raised in a city facing the sea. She has published two books of short stories in Spanish (”A Merlina”, 2007 and ”De escritores y miserias”, 2008) and has collaborated in magazines from Taiwan, Spain, Venezuela, Cuba, Chile and Argentina writing essays, articles and fiction. Some of her poems in Spanish have been published in anthologies from Spain and Argentina. It wasn’t until recently that she became drawn to theater and started writing some plays in English: Sfumato (2011), which had a staged reading in 2012 at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and at the IATI Theater in New York in 2013; and Heads and Tails (2012), which was invited to participate in The Playwrights’ Playground, at the Classical Theater of Harlem in New York in 2013. Marina plays the violin, is fluent in French, Chinese, reads Ancient Greek and loves painting and drawing. She currently lives in Asia. You can visit her here: www.marina-burana.com.
I don’t know what it is about grandmothers that usually makes them great, ’cause if you think about it, they were mothers themselves before being grandmothers, so how did they go from being annoying and protective to giving you candy when they knew they were not supposed to?
