Sudden Fiction Latino
Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America
Editors' Note
Robert Shapard, James Thomas, Ray Gonzalez
Introduction: A Smuggler's Sack
Luisa Valenzuela
The White Girl
Luis Alberto Urrea • United States
The Extravagant Behavior of the Naked Woman
Josefina Estrada • Mexico
Everyone's Abuelo Can't Have Ridden with Pancho Villa
Andrea Saenz • United States
The Book without Covers
Enrique Jaramillo Levi • Panama
Alma
Junot Díaz • United States
3 Microstories: CANNIBALS AND EXPLORERS / RESPECT FOR GENRES / THEOLOGIAN
Ana María Shua • Argentina
Clownpants Molina
Stephen D. Gutierrez • United States
Insomnia
Vigilio Piñera • Cuba
People of the Dog
Alma Luz Villanueva • United States
Light Is Like Water
Gabriel García Márquez • Colombia
Red Serpent Ceviche
Antonio Farias • United States
Celeste's Heart
Aída Bortnik • Argentina
Shout
Dagoberto Gilb • United States
The Lord of the Flies
Marco Denevi • Argentina
Day Ah Dallas Mare Toes
Luna Calderón • United States
The Eclipse
Augusto Monterroso • Mexico
Montezuma, My Revolver
Fernando Benavidez, Jr. • United States
Victim
Pedro Ponce • United States
When New Flowers Bloomed
Carmen Naranjo • Costa Rica
Imagining Bisbee
Alicita Rodríguez • United States
Miss Clairol
Helena María Viramontes • United States
Counterfeit
Edmundo Paz Soldán • Bolivia
The News of the Author
Omar Castañeda • United States
Halloween
Norma Elia Cantú • United States
The Book of Sand
Jorge Luis Borges • Argentina
Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote
Juan Martinez • United States
Impossible Story
Carmen Boullosa • Mexico
Eva and Daniel
Tomás Rivera • United States
The Captive
José Emilio Pacheco • Mexico
Essential Things
Jorge Luis Arzola • Cuba
Pilón
Sandra Cisneros • United States
4 Microstories: LOVE 1 / LOVE 2 / THE TEST / THE HOLE
Raúl Brasca • Argentina
Our Secret
Isabel Allende • Chile
The Native Lawyer
Rudolfo Anaya • United States
Señor Noboa
Raúl Leis • Panama
How to Live with a Feminista and (Still) Be a Macho: Notes Unabridged
Juan Felipe Herrera • United States
Aunt Chila
Ángeles Mastretta • Mexico
The Hitchhiker
Louis Reyna • United States
What Should Run in the Mind of Caballeros
Lupe Méndez • United States
The Scribe
Rafael Courtoisie • Uruguay
Phone Calls
Roberto Bolaño • Chile
Foreign Market
Ana Castillo • United States
The Proof
Rodrigo Rey Rosa • Guatemala
The Back of My Own Head in a Crowd
Alberto Ríos • United States
Fresh Fruit
Marisella Veiga • United States
Chronicle of the City of Havana
Eduardo Galeano • Uruguay
The Uprooted
Cristina Peri Rossi • Uruguay
The Visitor
Daniel Alarcón • United States
Volar
Judith Ortíz Cofer • United States
Asunder
Robert Lopez • United States
Devotion
Alejandra Pizarnik • Argentina
The Eternal Dog
Hernán Lavín Cerda • Chile
The Expression
Mario Benedetti • Uruguay
Johnny Depp
Socorro Venegas • Mexico
In the Cold of the Malecón
Antonio José Ponte • Cuba
Tía
Carmen Tafolla • United States
Hair
Hilma Contreras • Dominican Republic
La Guaca
Daniel A. Olivas • United States
The Centerfielder
Sergio Ramírez • Nicaragua
Chronicle of the Second Plague
Ignacio Padilla • Mexico
"Cielito Lindo"
Lisa Alvarez • United States
Day of the Dead
Daniel Chacón • United States
2 Microstories: THE WOODEN BOAT / ASTILLA
Manuel Muñoz • United States
Manuelito
Nicomedes Suárez Araúz • Bolivia
Zapata
Pablo Medina • United States
Cat's Eye
Luisa Valenzuela • Argentina
Epilogue: Migrations
Julio Ortega • Peru/United States