Yareah Magazine

Martin Askem 

by Martin Askem

When I grew up in the early eighties there was a television show I followed which had been produced in the late Sixties. This show was the cult classic ‘The Prisoner’.
This show to this day is considered one of the most thought provoking, groundbreaking and surreal shows ever made.
A high-ranking but un-named Agent in the British Government resigns from his job/post and leaves for a holiday. While packing he is gassed and is taken to a beautiful but deadly prison known only as "The Village" where people are taken, given a Number to be called by and kept there for the rest of their lives if they don't tell No. 2  the information they are captured for.

Alix Otoole

diseño de Lorena Cortes

Todos deseamos ser salvados: de la opresión, del dolor, de la miseria, de la cotidiana rutina, del vacío, de nosotros mismos. Cuando era niña, como para muchos creo, mi padre era mi superhéroe, podía hacer cualquier cosa con sus manos, tenía todo el conocimiento del mundo, era incansable y poderoso, era hermoso y caballeroso, me liberaba en las tardes de cómplice charla de una tristeza que me acompañaría para toda la vida, me llevaba con sus historias a lugares donde jamás había ido, me inspiraba en su quehacer con cosas que jamás haría y, aunque a veces mi superhéroe descendía a las tinieblas, para mí