Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the FantasticEduardo Jiménez Mayo, Chris N. Brown A huge, energetic, and ambitious groundbreaking anthology from emerging and established Mexican authors which showcases all-new supernatural folktales, alien incursions, ghost stories, apocalyptic narratives, and more. Stereotypes of Mexican identities and fictions are identified and transcended. Traditional tales rub shoulders with mindbending new worlds. Welcome to the new Mexican fantastic. Eduardo Jiménez Mayo's translations include books by Bruno Estañol, Rafael Pérez Gay, and José María Pérez Gay. |
Contents
The Guest | 5 |
Murillo Park | 13 |
The Hour of the Fireflies | 25 |
Waiting | 31 |
Hunting Iguanas | 43 |
1965 | 51 |
Variation on a Theme of Coleridge | 59 |
CARMEN RIOJA | 139 |
Future Nereid | 171 |
Pink Lemonade | 183 |
RENÉ ROQUET | 191 |
Three Messages and a Warning | 201 |
The President without Organs | 207 |
The Transformist | 217 |
The Drop | 225 |
Wolves | 231 |
Pachuca Second Street | 147 |
Mannequin | 157 |
The Mediator | 163 |
COPYRIGHTS | 241 |
ABOUT THE EDITORS | 261 |
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