Short Stories
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Satan
What does it take for a human being to cross the invisible line separating sanity from massacre? Mario Mendoza doesn’t offer easy answers: he drags you through Bogotá’s broken streets until you understand…
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The Sounds of Terror
Our ears reveal what our eyes don’t perceive. With a sound we can tell if danger is near or far, if what lurks the path is large. Even deafening silence gives us signals…
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The Last Heartbeat
If only the darkness would stop calling me, in my last heartbeat. If only the edge of that voice didn’t cut me, perhaps I could move forward in my life. But no, it’s…
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To Escape the World
To escape the world. I prepare my cigarette… I do it slowly, very fast, but very slow so it doesn’t lose its charge. I check its charge well—that everything’s fine—that its seeds don’t…
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This Woman Named Hannah
This Woman Named Hannah reflects on emotional loneliness through a woman trapped between heartbreak, hope and the silent desire to be loved before life becomes unbearable solitude.
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The Most Disturbing Brothers Grimm Tales for This October
Behind every sanitized fairy tale lies the brutal world of the Brothers Grimm: cannibals, abusive parents, mutilation and children abandoned to die. These weren’t bedtime stories meant to comfort children, but warnings about…
