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As if seen by X-ray, the characters of these stories show us everything that a human being should hide, every story is filled with unmentionable eccentricities. A Parisian photographer who is interested only in eyelids, a Japanese office worker who discovers his strange affinity...

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of...

Eight powerful stories about characters confronted with the unknown and with their own fears... In one of these stories, the protagonist explains her encounter with an albatross, that solitary bird with majestic flight to which Baudelaire dedicated a poem. She and her father come...

After turning eight months pregnant, Alina learns that her daughter will not survive the birth. She and her partner undertake a process of acceptance and mourning. Laura, Alina's friend, refers to the conflict while reflecting on love and its incomprehensible logic, and strategies to...

Claudio is Cuban, lives in New York, and works at a publishing house. Cecilia is Mexican, lives in Paris and is a student. He keeps the memories of his past in Havana and faces a complicated relationship with Ruth. While in a relationship with...

Inspired by the author’s own childhood, this is the story of a girl with a birth defect of the eye. Her life during the seventies is heavily influenced by her scant vision, but also by the dominant ideology of the time: her parent’s open...