“Petrushka”
translated, from the Spanish, by Ayden LeRoux Like an therld sailor, he scans the horizon with his binoculars. He doesn’t look at the blue horizon line though; his eyes follow the serpentine sketch of the road that crosses through the …
Category: Fiction
A Symbolic Story
Author’s note on sigils: The practice of sigil writing has been prevalent in witchcraft societies for hundreds of years. However, when I first began practicing witchcraft nine years ago, hardly any witch made them. Within the last few years, sigil …
Expensive Nights
This Friday night doesn’t look like a party night. It’s almost eleven. After a couple of ineffective calls to my friends it seems that I have to go to bed early. A couple of beers in the bar nearby and …
LA LUPE: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO YIYIYI
LA LUPE: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO YIYIYI “This is the irresponsible sport of a shy sort of man who could not bring himself to write short stories, and so amused himself by changing and distorting (sometimes without aesthetic justification) the …
Pensamientos en español
The time is 3:14 AM, and now its 3:15 AM. Mi Cumpleaños es el quince de marzo: 3/15. I’m lying awake on my bed, though my eyes are closed by mind wanders and acts more awake than most afternoons. It’s …
The lighthouse
Agahlo built the lighthouse in 1924 in an old city outside of a province, which has since been named too often, really, to withstand another naming here. The force of its impression has less to do with its now debilitated …
The Defendants Are Found to Be Highly Intelligent*
“Red Adidas? Now tell me, who wears red Adidas? No wonder he got killed,” says the one with the pigtails. (Who makes pigtails?! Are you in kindergarten or something? She must think it’s cute, Lolita or something.) One girl looks …
The Defendants Are Found to Be Highly Intelligent* Read more »
Androculous and the Lion
In the Circus Maximus a very magnificent hunting spectacle was given to the people. There were many raging beasts, but above all the others, a lion attracted the attention of everyone with its enormous body and its loud and frightful …
Survival
While waiting her turn, her mind flashbacked to the time of the separation — a year she will never forget. It was in early June of 2011 when it was announced that the economies of all countries would be collapsing …
Tijuana: Host of the 2044 Olympic Games + Copyright
TIJUANA: Host of the 2044 Olympic Games Tijuana, B.C.: Juan Pérez is the first Mexican to win a gold medal in the obstacle course. He exclusively tells us, “My main motivation was that they’ve replaced the hurdles with border walls.” …
Tijuana: Host of the 2044 Olympic Games + Copyright Read more »