The five authors who created this collection of short stories approach death from different angles, textures, and emotions: humor, madness, absurdity, tradition, or ignorance. Ten stories that are a face-to-face dialogue with death through the written word, through the blood pounding in the temples and the inside of the thighs. Virginia Woolf said that death is the enemy, but it is also the moment in which our story takes on meaning. And in that, in imbuing their stories with meaning, in shedding small beams of light into the deepest darkness that surrounds us in order to continue understanding what death is or, to put it another way, who we are in the face of death, the authors you are about to read have undoubtedly emerged victorious, because they write, above all, from their own truth. How else should it be written?

Adolfo Gilaberte