Exploring the delicate interplay of light and darkness in our worldโwhere empathy, identity, and the unseen converge. Essays that illuminate the cracks, question the narratives, and linger in the shadows.
Francisco J. Bernal writes in Spanish and English from his home in the UK, tracing stories that slip between silence and memory, exile and return. His Substack, The Lantern and the Void, follows the light that escapes through historyโs cracks.