Marius Stankiewicz, a Toronto native, is a former international journalist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker who currently resides and works in Barcelona as a communications manager in the music and technology business. His journalistic work has been featured in NPR, Al Jazeera, Barcelona Metropolitan, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the Province, and Men's Journal. Stankiewicz graduated with a master's degree in English from Jagiellonian University in Cracow and a master's degree in communication science & media from the University of Amsterdam. In his free time, he plays the drums, frequents dive bars, and trains in Muay Thai, an ancient combat sport originating in Thailand. He posts on Istagram regularly, at https://www.instagram.com/marius_z_stanki.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
i. Voyeur 2
ii. Paco from Huelva 13
iii. Scrap 20
iv. Recife 22
v. El Barrio 32
vi. The Black Arrow 46
vii. Meet the Suarez's 56
viii. Social Protest Poetry 68
ix. Horst's World of Antiques 77
x. Wedding Invitations 83
xi. Crash 88
xii. Triage 95
xiii. Disintegration 105
xiv. Botero's Fat Cat 111
xv. Break the Banks 116
xvi. Meeting with Noguerra 129
xvii. The Tsar's Snow Globes 135
xviii. Quijotic 144
xix. The Blue Room 156
xx. Exclamation in Blood 167
xxi. Wine Tablets 172
xxii. Freddie Chopin 184
xxiii. Bayern vs. Barca 200
xxiv. The Best Team in the World 206
xxv. Day of Thiago 218
xxvi. The Ambush 223
xxvii. High Time 228
xxviii. Revenga 240
