21 Bizarre Short Stories

A shadow with a mind of its own detaches from its host’s body—to find someone else to control. An intergalactic traveler attempts to locate the very center of the universe, and discovers the secrets of the human mind. A devilish Chihuahua demands to be fed more and more meat—and then develops a taste for human flesh. Those are just a sampling of the 21 unusual short stories collected in this singularly unique and sharply drawn volume. José Cepeda García’s world is one in which fantasy and reality coexist, producing an uncanny and dreamlike existence for his smorgasbord of characters drawn from all levels of society. It is a world filled with the strange and surreal, the frightening and the fantastic. But what at first shocks begins to feel oddly familiar and uncomfortably relevant as García trains his eye on the fundamentals of the human experience—from our capacity to endure great suffering to the never-ending quest for truth. What results is an exquisitely imagined world that might not be so strange after all…

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