Diez Años Después (English: Ten Years After) is set on an ordinary day. One woman pulls out a cigarette to smoke, and a man almost immediately offers her a light. After a few minutes of silence, the two finally face each other and talk about how they’ve been smoking together for a long, long time. Continue Reading
Sin Palabras (No Words, in English) is about a young man who is forced to spend some days with an old author. The old man seems aloof, and has some trouble using his old typewriter. After a while, the teenager offers to help the writer with his typing work, and the man hesitantly agrees. Continue Reading
No Mires Ahí (Don’t Look There, in English) starts with Irene, a little girl who loves and worries about her sick father. After some time, Marta, her sister, comes home to hear bad news: that her father has passed on. While talking to her mother about how Irene does not seem to be coping well with the loss, Marta starts to see visions in her bedroom. Continue Reading
Pecera (Fishbowl, in English) is about a boss dealing with a number of “unfair dismissals” in her company. It also features the story of a woman who may or may not be unfairly dismissed herself. They don’t seem to be related, really, but they somehow are. Will someone be fired again, then? Perhaps. Continue Reading
RS-1281 is a tale set in the far future. By this time, mankind has created highly intelligent robots, but has also destroyed the Earth due to their own actions. Now, Duedan must take a test with RS-1281, an android who will decide whether or not he is a real human being. Continue Reading