Crónicas inexplicables

December, 2004. Gumaro de Dios kills the time with El Peln. The heat is suffocating, the mosquitoes hum. The afternoon breaks out and sometime in the night a voice whispers in the Cannibal's ear. The residents of the Mayan Riviera find out about it at dawn. The rumor that travels across the streets freezes blood and skin of one person after another. He scratched the bones and even used the viscera, with which he prepared an exquisite broth. The trial is succinct. Nobody wants to listen to the Cannibal. He is a butcher, a dangerous criminal, a repellent being. Alejandro Almazn approaches...

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.

Póngale usted el título que quiera es una obra con al menos dos libros. En las páginas impares, el reto de empezar cada poema con el mismo verso nos descubre frente a un espejo donde somos la posibilidad que no fuimos: empezar por desconocernos, por querer ser otro, por ser ese otro y hablar con las plantas, por escribir los poemas que nos pasan, por ver el humo de las naves quemadas... en cada poema, un itinerario situacional y afectivo nos anticipa lo que las páginas pares nos iluminan con la misma frecuencia con la que nos oscurecen: en las pares, el poeta dialoga con un sí mismo que...

Un libro de crónicas, semblanzas, reportajes y entrevistas que quiebran el sueño y el sopor y hacen crecer una sonrisa divertida de principio a fin.