Nicolle's dreams are in tatters. She wants to be a painter and exhibit in Barcelona's best galleries, but in truth, all she has done in the city is have an affaire with a married man - something that has got her nowhere.
The attractive professor of literature Victor Vega decides to accept the highly unusual proposal put to him by the widower of the writer Hugo Mendoza: to investigate whether her husband is still alive, despite the fact that his death has been lega
They were only in their early twenties at the time. A group of friends who met up in Bar Kronen and enjoyed their youth through sex, alcohol and drugs. Occasionally they flirted with death and there was even the odd casualty.
'This is the story of Victoria the cow: the cow died and that was the end of the story.' That's how the popular story goes, and it's only slightly longer than the story of the dinosaur from Monterroso.
What would a world be like where most children were taught via artificial intelligence and only a select few, the sons and daughters of the elite, got to meet actual teachers?
When you have a broken leg you can’t run, jump, or climb. Julia is so bored, but then she gets an idea: why not check out what the neighbours are up to using her binoculars?
There are truths that can seem incredible, so to avoid problems it might seem best to tell a little white lie. But if this still doesn't sound convincing, we have to invent another, bigger lie: a big fat lie, a rotten lie, or a dirty great lie.
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Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...