Antología de cuentos de terror, 3

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Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child,...

Approaching fantasy, but with particularities that push it beyond the constraints of that genre, "Ornamento" details the encounter between a scientist and a group of volunteers, guinea pigs for a new recreational drug that solely affects women. After one of them, known only as Number 4, becomes romantically involved with the scientist and his wife, the couple finds their beliefs and assumptions based in a position of socioeconomic privilege shaken to the core."

¿Qué me ocurre? Al principio de la obra surge esta pregunta: ¿Qué pasa? No tardaremos en saber la respuesta. El principal protagonista se encuentra en el más allá, donde un personaje le aprende que está sufriendo un accidente cerebrovascular durmiendo, nadie lo sabe. Se desarrolla entonces una larga historia, donde siempre con humor, vivimos un extraño recorrido. Un texto sorprendente, donde nos encontramos envueltos entre lo real, lo irreal y lo, ¿por qué no?, posible. Una historia que nos hace sonreir, donde las preguntas surgen a lo largo de este texto con un ¿será verdad?