Un polizón en la maleta

Julie knows that an orgasm is the thing that happens when her husband yelps like an ape and collapses onto her. She also knows how to arch her back and make the right sounds at the right time--but she's never had an orgasm of her own. Tired of this, she devotes herself to masturbation full time. But it's not as easy as they make it sound in sex shops: Julie can't stop getting distracted by thoughts and memories. Julie knows that an orgasm is the thing that happens when her husband yelps like an ape and collapses onto her. She also knows how to arch her back and make the right sounds at the...

La reina, el rey y el peque o pr ncipe visitan a un ni ito un d a por la ma ana, pero l no est en casa. Por eso, al otro d a, vuelven acompa ados de un caballero, pero el peque o tampoco se encuentra. Cada d a se agrega un nuevo personaje a la comitiva que llega a buscar al ni o, hasta que, por fin, un domingo el chico recibe a toda la corte en su casa.

Procurar buenos hábitos de higiene —como lavar las frutas y verduras, lavarse las manos antes de comer y después de ir al baño, y beber agua pura y simple— resulta importante para prevenir enfermedades gastrointestinales. Esto es lo que la niña protagonista de este cuento aprende cuando está a punto de cruzar la delgada línea entre la vida y la muerte.

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....