Fantasía sin hadas

«Somos más actores que autores de nuestros propios sueños». El narrador inicia a las diez de la mañana un itinerario por las calles de una gran ciudad que debe concluir doce horas después, momento en el que deberá enfrentarse a una decisiva revelación. Su itinerario urbano va acompañado de otro mental, el de la rememoración de toda una vida. Las personas y lugares que se encuentra, a veces familiares y a veces transformados en el curso del tiempo, le evocarán de forma impulsiva y anacrónica los recuerdos, anhelos y sueños que dejaron una impronta en su ser. Desde los rugidos que...

Los textos que componen Sobre héroes literarios y otras ficciones recrean episodios asociados a escritores del canon literario universal. Bellamente narrado, este corpus de cuentos se vale de formas, estrategias y expresiones propias del autor en cuestión para darle un tratamiento imaginativo a episodios históricos o biográficos. La estrategia básica del narrador de estos cuentos consiste en hacer del evento histórico-biográfico el material narrativo, pero recreándolo por medio de un lenguaje que emula el modo y las formas narrativas y poéticas de cada escritor. El final de los...

The road of Sandra Miller’s life is strewn with the corpses of those who loved her or simply got in her way. She was born in a small town in Maine on a stormy night with thunder and lightning sent by the devil himself. She was born to be bad, and yet her evil is hidden well beneath bright green eyes and a sexual presence no man can resist. She focuses on the so-called stronger sex, weaving a web of seduction until she catches her prey, and the road of her life has been strewn with the corpses of those who loved her—and those simply got in her way. She continues on her hellish path, even...

It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone? Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true. Because this fire wasn't an accident. It was murder. And the killer is still out there...