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The Magazine of the brief & fantasticXI CERTAMEN INTERNACIONAL DE MICROCUENTOFANTÁSTICO miNatura 2013BASES DEL CERTAMEN1. Podrán concursar todos los interesados sin límite de edad, posean o no librospublicados dentro del género.2. Los trabajos deberán presentarse encastellano. El tema del microcuento deberáser afín a la literatura fantástica, la cienciaficción o el terror.3. Los originales tienen que enviarse a lasiguiente dirección:revistadigitalminatura.certamenesliterarios@blogger.com4. Los trabajos deberán ir precedidos de lafirma que incluirá los siguientes datos:seudónimo obligatorio (que aparecerápublicado junto al microcuento para suevaluación), nombre completo,nacionalidad, edad, dirección postal (calle,número, código postal, ciudad, país), e-mailde contacto y un breve currículum literarioen caso de poseerlo (estos datos no seránpublicados).5. Se aceptará un único cuento por participante. La publicación del mismo en lashoras posteriores al envío dentro del blog Certámenes Literarios miNatura(http://certamenesliterariosminatura.blogspot.com.es/) previa moderación, hará lasveces de acuse de recibo.IMPORTANTE: La cuenta de correo dispuesta para el recibo de los microcuentosno ofrece la posibilidad de mantener correspondencia con los participantes, ni tanmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 2

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticsiquiera queda reflejada la dirección del remitente, de ahí la obligatoriedad de incluirun mail de contacto.6. Cualquier consulta sobre el certamen o el envío del microcuento deberá hacerse ala siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: revistadigitalminatura@gmail.com7. Los microcuentos tendrán una extensión máxima de 25 líneas. Y deberá serenviado sin formatos añadidos de ningún tipo (justificación, interlineado, negrita,cursiva o subrayado, inclusión de imágenes, cuadros de texto, etc). De poseerlos éstosserán borrados para su inmediata publicación en el blog.IMPORTANTE: Para comprobar que la extensión del microcuento no excede las 25líneas y cumple con los requisitos, se utilizará una plantilla de documento de Wordtamaño de papel Din-A4 con tres centímetros de margen a cada lado, sobre el que sepegará el texto presentado con tipografía Time New Roman puntaje 12. (Elmicrocuento puede enviarse en cualquier otro tipo y tamaño de tipografía siempre ycuando se haya comprobado que cumple con los requisitos que acabamos deexponer).8. La participación y los datos personales, deberán ir integrados en el cuerpo delmensaje.IMPORTANTE: No se admiten adjuntos de ningún tipo.9. Aquellos cuentos que no cumplan con las bases no serán etiquetados comoADMITIDO A CONCURSO (Aparecerán sin etiquetar en el blog).IMPORTANTE: Los cuentos que queden fuera dispondrán de una únicaoportunidad dentro del plazo de recepción de originales para modificar su envío y quesu texto pueda entrar a concurso. (Si no aparece publicado en dos o tres días, puedeescribir a la dirección de consulta incluida en el punto número 6 de estas bases).10. Las obras deberán ser inéditas y no estar pendientes de valoración en ningúnotro concurso.11. En el asunto deberá indicarse: XI Certamen Internacional De MicrocuentoFantástico miNatura 2013. (No se abrirán los trabajos recibidos con otro asunto).12. Se otorgará un único primer premio por el jurado consistente en la publicacióndel microcuento ganador en nuestra revista digital y diploma. Así mismo se otorgaránlas menciones que el jurado estime convenientes que serán igualmente publicadas enmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 3

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticel número especial de la Revista Digital miNatura dedicado al certamen y obtendrándiploma acreditativo que será remitido vía e-mail en formato jpg.13. El primer premio no podrá quedar desierto.14. Los trabajos presentado serán eliminados del blog una vez se haya hechopúblico el fallo del certamen y tan sólo quedarán en él aquellos cuentos que resultendestacados en el mismo.15. En ningún supuesto los autores pierden los derechos de autor sobre sus obras.16. El jurado estará integrado por miembros de nuestro equipo y reconocidosescritores del género.17. El fallo del jurado será inapelable y se dará a conocer el 29 de septiembre de2013 y podrá ser consultado a partir de ese mismo día en nuestros blogs (RevistaDigital miNatura, miNatura & Soterrània y Certámenes literarios miNatura).También será publicado en páginas afines y en el grupo Revista Digital miNatura enFacebook: ( http://www.facebook.com/groups/126601580699605/ ).18. La participación en el certamen supone la total aceptación de sus bases.19. El plazo de admisión comenzará el 5 de mayo de 2013 y finalizará el día 31 dejulio de 2013 a las 12 de la noche hora española.Ricardo Acevedo E. y Carmen Rosa Signes U.Directores de la Revista Digital miNaturamay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 4

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticAcluphobia; Fear ofnight, darkness﴾﴿Bogyphobia: Fear ofbogies, or thebogeyman﴾﴿Coulrophobia: Fear ofclowns﴾﴿Demonophobia: Fearof demons﴾﴿Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrorsPhasmophobia: Fear of ghosts isknown as﴾﴿﴾﴿Gnoseophbia: Fear ofknowledge.Hexakosioihexekontahexafobia:Fear of the number 666.﴾﴿﴾﴿Cenophobia: Fear of emptyspaces.﴾﴿Technophobia: Fear oftechnology.﴾﴿﴾﴿Xylophobia: Fear ofdark forests.﴾﴿Nomophobia: fear ofbeing out of mobilephone contact.﴾﴿Paraskavedekatriaphoia: Fear of Friday the13 thRabdophobia: fear of magicwands﴾﴿﴾﴿Samhainophobia: Fear ofHalloween.Pnigophobia: Fear of buriedalive.Ouranophobia: Fear of Heaven.Wiccaphobia: Fear of witchesand witchcraft.﴾﴿﴾﴿﴾﴿﴾﴿Terdekaphobia: fear of thenumber 13﴾﴿Theophobia: Fear of God.Metrophobia: Fear of poetry.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 5

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic¿ How collaborate miNaturaDigital Magazine?To work with us simplysend a story (up to 25 lines)poem (up to 50 lines) oritem (3 to 6 pages)Times New Roman 12, A4format (three inchesclearance on each side).Entries must respond to thecase (horror, fantasy orscience fiction) to try.Send a brief literarybiography (in case ofhaving).We respect the copyright tocontinuous power of theircreators.Contributions should be sentto:minaturacu@yahoo.esYou can follow ourpublication through:http://www.servercronos.net/bloglgc/index.php/minatura/Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/groups/126601580699605/?fref=ts"The oldest andstrongestemotion ofmankind is fear."H.P. Lovecraft"But I'm not asaint yet. I'm analcoholic. I'm adrug addict. I'mhomosexual. I'ma genius.”PhobiasTruman Capote,Music forChameleons "The absence of phobias ornihilofobias 1 is the most awful of theprophecies to be fulfilled, thatSuperman we approach which haveboasted both the right and the left. Thedazzling amoral horror writers likeLovecraft unsuccessfully tried to let usknow.The exemplary citizen of a universedevoid of vitality and we phobiccreatures we become inhabitants of thecorners, outcasts of the irrational.So take care of your phobia, give tocompost as an exotic and believe thesecured - What the Gods confusepsychoanalysts! -: Build a newapprehension.This issue continues with thepresentation of the rules of micro storyFantástico miNatura 2013, Frki Frases,the interview of Cristina Jurado to theArgentine writer and editor of ScienceFiction: Edward J. Carletti, throughshort stories and La Biblioteca delNostromo.The Library of Nostromo:http://bibliotecadelnostromominatura.blogspot.com.es/1 Fear of nothingness (comes from thecombination of the Latin word nihil whichmeans nothing, none, and the suffix -phobia),as described by the Doctor in the Star Trek:Voyager episode Night.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 6

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticAs always it is impossible to closethis editorial without thankingillustrators.Ntousakis Vagelis (Greece); JavierCoscarelli (Argentina); EvandroRubert (Brazil); Dibujazuka –SEUD.−(France); Miriam Ascula (Argentina);Paul Gerrard (UK); George Acevedo(EE.UU.); Ekatherina Gorelka(Russia); Priscilla Hernández (Spain);Graciela Marta Alfonso (Argentina);Tom Colbie (Canada);Carlos Valenzuela(Chile)The jury of the VCertamenInternacional dePoesía FantásticamiNatura 2013proclaimed as winnerthe poem:GUÁRDAMESeudónimo: LOPEDE RUEDAFirmado: JuanjoGarcía Del Pilar(España)Se destaca la delicada forma de sucontenido, la sutileza de unos versosque bien podrían formar parte de unpoemario en pleno romanticismo. Unpoema que ha gustado por igual atodo el jurado y que augura un futuroprometedor a su autor.Así mismo el Jurado decide hacermención de la calidad de lossiguientes poemas finalistas:EL TRIUNVIRATOSeudónimo: EL PAPOOLAFirmado: Federico Miguel Aldunate(Argentina)EL JARDÍN AMPUTADOSeudónimo: GINFirmado: Irene Beiro Magán(España)RETRATO DEROBERT E.HOWARDSeudónimo:ELMORESILVAFirmado: Miquel A.Garrido (España)SER O NO SER ENDETROITSeudónimo:BONNIEFirmado: MaríaJosé Gil Benedicto(España)BASCULANDOENTRE LO HUMANOY LO IMPOSIBLE ALCANZOSeudónimo: BOLSA DE PLÁSTICOFirmado: Noemí Jiménez Cabello(España)VIVOSeudónimo: WALMARESFirmado: Sergio López Vidal(España)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 7

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticCENIZAS EN UNA CÁPSULA SINTIEMPOSeudónimo: ARDAFirmado: Lynette Mabel Pérez(Puerto Rico)ANTICANCIÓN PARA UN DESTINONO ENTRÓPICOSeudónimo: ASTERIÓNFirmado por Pere J. MartínezMarqués (España)ARMAGEDDONSeudónimo: RUTGERFirmado: Isidro J. MartínezRodríguez (España)GRASIENTA TRISTEZASeudónimo: PARMOD APOSTOLOVFirmado: Juan Munoz (Colombianocanadiense)YIDHRASeudónimo: TRASPIÉ HIDALGOFirmado: Patricia K. Olivera(Uruguay)POEMA INCONCLUSOSeudónimo: ALIVERFirmado: Nestor Quadri (Argentina)GAUDEAMUSSeudónimo: CHRISTIANFirmado: Mónica Ramos Pérez(Cuba)LA CULPA ESTABA ENTRE MISMANOS…Seudónimo: LA KHALESSIFirmado: Elaine Vilar Madruga(Cuba)Our sincere thanks once again forthe good reception that continues tohave the event that confirms theinterest that has fantastic poetryamong contemporary poets and thatis evidenced by the quality of theentries. See you next year in the 6thedition of this event.I take a few lines to apologize for thedelay of this issue and as alwaysblame the rescued reasons beyondmy control.Thanks to allDirectores: Ricardo Acevedo E. y Carmen R. Signes UrreaMain cover: Phobias por Vaggelis Ntousakis (Greece)Back cover: Sweet Dreams por Carlos Valenzuela (Chile)Cover design: Carmen R. Signes Urrea (Spain)Collaborations: minaturacu@yahoo.esDownloads:http://www.servercronos.net/bloglgc/index.php/minatura/may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 8

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticInterviewing Eduardo J. Carletti, Director ofAxxón magazineInterviewer: Cristina JuradoTranslation: Cristina JuradoPhotos & images: Eduardo J. CarlettiEncyclopedias describe an axon as theprolongation of the neurons, in charge of directingnervous impulses towards other cells. It is the cablein the electrical circuit formed by our nervoussystem. Axxón http://axxon.com.ar is somethingsimilar, but in the science fiction, fantasy and terrorliterary circuit. This Argentinian e-zine is beenconnecting news, popular texts and short stories tothe public since 1989. Today miNatura interviewsone of its founders and current director, Eduardo J.Carletti. This engineer in Digital Electronics andComputer Hardware not only develops software butalso writes sci-fi (Instante de máximo quebranto(1988), Por media eternidad, cayendo (1991), Unlargo camino (1992)) or works as editor.“Maybe one day we will get sick and tired of being hypnotized by short lines ona screen and we will seat down again to read and tell fictions out loud”.Revista Digital miNatura: You have told the origins of Axxón many timeslocated in the sci-fi literary meetings that you used to attend in 1989. Therefore,may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 9

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticdebate and exchange of ideas are core pillars of your magazine. This willingness todialogue, how do you think Axxón embraces it?Eduardo J. Carletti: It´s reflected in the large number of sections that themagazine and the web site had over the years. Every person responsible for each ofthem has and had total freedom. We also had a zine inside the magazine (called“Andernow”). Many sections stopped because the people in charge didn´t stay.Before, there were “face to face” debates and exchange of ideas because we used tomeet every Friday. There was always the possibility to continue discussions duringdinner or to organize a literary workshop or just talk until 5 am. Communicationsthrough Internet has transformed us in more the hermit-like type. We see each otherfrom time to time, but we are in constant contact via e-mails, messages, and theYahoo groups created for the magazine: one to direct it and the other to deal withcontent.Revista Digital miNatura: In the beginning Axxón got distributed through thediskettes that you personally delivered all over the city. Content distribution haschanged extraordinarily in last years. Now, everybody can access data generated inthe other side of the world. How do you see the evolution of e-zines? In your opinion,where are they going?Eduardo J. Carletti: I see the evolution of society, more than the one ofdigital publications. It was wonderful for editors and authors to be able to publishfiction and other content in one space. The birth of Axxón or BEM attracted manypeople, some bringing material, some just collaborating. We had teams with morethan thirty people. Then free blogs came and many viewed them as the perfectopportunity to be the captain of their own ship. We were hurt. Many collaboratorsdecided to do their own thing. After that, sites and blogs suffered from anotherphenomenon: the boom of social networks, especially Facebook. Today it isimperative to be in Facebook or, even if you have been the most visited site in theworld, you will die slowly.Facebook is not only a big screen to publish links; it also stimulates contentproduction. But to post contents in Facebook means to loose control over them. It´sthe owner of the network who decides how to display them, how long will they be up,or when will they disappear. The way it works forces content to be short-lived. Andthere are also an almost limitless number of distractions; nothing good for web sitesdevoted to a minority. Now, Twitter arrives and one can notice that people got usedto short sentences and some videos and they are less interested in longer texts. Whatmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 10

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticit´s the future? I don´t feel like making predictions because I would probably say thatwe will end up communicating in monosyllables. I believe that there will be aselection close to the natural one and only the most viable will survive. People willchoose and it´s impossible to predict what are they going to pick. It can happen a“Rediscovery of Men” process, like in Cordwainer Smith´s stories. Maybe one daywe will get sick and tired of being hypnotized by short lines on a screen and we willseat down again to read and tellfictions out loud.Revista Digital miNatura:Related to the previous question, whatis your opinion about the newdistribution methods in the editorialworld (like crowfunding or selfpublication?Eduardo J. Carletti: I don´tknow much about the outcome, but theidea is a very good one. You shouldask the people who has used or is usingthem; personally, I believe that it´s agood solution. We already did it whenwe published our first and lastAnnuaire -without any Internet groupspecialized in this method, because itwas organized in a Yahoo group-. Theoutcome was intermediate: wecalculated the price of the subscriptionand we were told that we needed togather certain quantity of subscribers.When we reached the required level ofrequests and collected the subscriptions, we initiated the printing. We had additionalrequests to cover the mailing costs. The problem was that not all subscribers paid ontime and many copies sent to Europe were lost: we had to send them again. Some,never arrived, so there were subscribers who got upset. We did not generate enoughmoney to publish another book so, at the end, we lost money. But this could havebeen because of our commercial weakness.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 11

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticRevista Digital miNatura: We would like to slip in your back room and seethe way you work in preparing one of your issues.Eduardo J. Carletti: Our working style is the same as any production line.We receive short stories that three people evaluate. We wait for those evaluations andthe stories that make the cut are sent to get an illustration. From the material that wegather, we choose some to start the issue and we give it to our editorial department.Then, the texts are organized to post them in private, and someone reviews them. Ifeverything is OK, we go public, normally a Sunday night. Monday morning, wemake the announcement. Something similar happens with the articles and the covers,although we get less material. In occasions we request cover illustrations, articles andinterviews and, very rarely, some short stories.Revista Digital miNatura: Argentina at the end of the 80´ was in the middleof a tough politic and economic situation with an increasing inflation that forbiddenmany literary magazines to continue. You were able to develop Axxón in that contextand have maintained it during 24 years against all the odds. Global economical crisisand Argentina´s claim of justice to be served against the dictatorship supportersshows a very difficult moment. How do you think that the current historical situationin your country influences science fiction and fantasy books?Eduardo J. Carletti: Argentina´s situation is depicted differently towards theoutside by the dominant media while, when seen from the inside, things are perceiveddifferently. We are better than before (and I´m already in my sixth decade). I thinkthat this isn´t very positive for any genre and it´s even worse when the genre has alimited number of fans… even if I sound a bit contradictory. I´ll explain: any societythat improves its status buys more technology, consumes more cable or satellite TV,uses more broad band Internet and has a large variety of entertaining gadgets withinits reach. Maybe I´m wrong but I don´t think that this scenario helps people get closerto books. It also doesn´t help publishing companies backing new names. They preferthe ones that sell millions of copies in USA or Europe.Spain´s crisis is present, because there is less production and fewer Spanishbooks come to these shores. Perhaps this generates anxiety in readers, who pressurethe bookshops, who also bring that to the attention of the editors, but I doubt it. Onthe other hand, here the Government promotes printing companies who acquire hightechequipment and print directly here. This helps a bit but the market of fictionmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 12

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticnovels and short stories does not feel the impact. We started to feel it in magazines,but those devoted to lighter topics.There are no science fiction magazines with a broad coverage and large printrun in Argentina. In regards to literary production, and the themes chosen by localauthors, reality influences but, luckily, in may different ways. We feel a progressiveimprovement in the content quality and in the variety of themes. Maybe this is adirect result of the writer´s exposure to more information. Anyhow, this is a questionthat younger authors should answer and not I, an editor close to retiring.“Science fiction and fantasy in Latin America are more audacious in the waythey face themes and approaches, and also in mixing reality with speculationthat borderlines fantasy”Revista Digital miNatura: Based on your experience in Axxón, what do youthing that the editor brings in the publishing process? What differentiates him or herfrom a corrector or beta-reader?Eduardo J. Carletti: I must provide carefulness, prestige, presentation,distribution, good selection sense, and -whenever there is time- give feedback to theauthor. Writers need to know what editors are thinking about their material, and oftensuggestions or indications about certain aspects of the text are welcome. I speak nowas a writer: my close relation with some editors helped me a lot with my work. Inother instances after publication I lamented some mistakes that I found and also –because human beings are prone to find guiltiness in others- I regretted that the editordid not detected them either.Revista Digital miNatura: What are the characteristics of the science fictionand fantasy genres in Latin America?may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 13

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticEduardo J. Carletti: Some foreign editors, when translating our books, madeinteresting comments. There are several characteristics that captured their attention.It looks like in Latin America, we are more audacious –I´m talking on average,because we know that there are a lot of bold and original Anglo-Saxon authors, butthey are not the majority- in the way we face themes and approaches, and also inmixing reality withspeculation that borderlinesfantasy. They are betterdetectors than us of what iscalled “fantastic realism”. Ibelieve that this is aconsequence of the closecontact with nature andprimitive myths in LatinAmerica and because we arenot as much immersed intechnology than many Anglo-Saxon authors. Obviously, ouridiosyncrasy as Latin people,a mixture of indigenous andimmigrants of all sorts, mustgenerate different ways ofthinking and that´s reflected inour texts. Science fiction witha very Anglo-Saxon style doesnot interest outside but,luckily, there are fewer localwriters that used that style.Revista DigitalmiNatura: Very soon youwill reach 30 million web visitors and 240 issues. How do you see the future ofAxxón?Eduardo J. Carletti: It will go on if there are people willing to continue it.I´m old enough to be tired and I have less time left to go on without sleeping. Bodymay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 14

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticand mind cannot keep up, like they used to. I think that Axxón will be inherited or…it will not be at all.Revista Digital miNatura: As sci-fi fan, what ingredients do you believe thatare necessary in a good sci-fi story?Eduardo J. Carletti: This is a never-ending discussion, isn´t it? I think that itrequires to: spill over lots of imagination, be risqué and, when possible, show newideas. It needs to have an accurate development; bring solid characters; and offersomething that does not send us directly to the screen of Twitter or Facebook. It´s apositive thing to know a bit about science, even if science is not present in the text. Ifthe author doesn´t know well the frontiers of science –and just has popular levelknowledge- he or she can make mistakes, ruining the content. The language andmethodology of science bring along a lot of interesting sparks, even when science isnot used in the story. That´s the reason why there is a popular science section inAxxón. To me, it is as important as the literary part.The end of the interview is the part where we ask our interviewees a fixed setof questions:Star Wars or Disney?Star Trek.Fast food or homemade food?Home made food.If you had to choose to be a character from a movie, which one would it be?One that could have an accompanying girl and that I could make fall in lovewith me… like Michelle Pfeiffer in “Frankie and Johnny” or Rachel McAdams in“The Notebook” or Halle Berry in “Salomon and Sheba”… hahaha… But it´s true.Those girls made me fall in love with them. I fell for their characters too. I wish Iwere the character that makes them fall in love.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 15

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticCan you tell as the worst book you ever read?Few that was sent to me for publishing … it´s the truth.And the best book you ever read?It´s a difficult question, “The sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut or “What maduniverse” by Fredric Brown. And some more, of course.Which type of music you like to listen?Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Yes…3D cinema, yes or not?I haven´t see 3D movies in a cinema with a good system. I watched “Avatar” ata suburbs cinema without the necessary technology. I normally prefer to watchmovies at home in my TV via satellite.If you had to choose to have a super-power, which one would it be?Be invulnerable like Superman.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 16

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The Magazine of the brief & fantasticSummary:1/ Cover: Phobias/ Vaggelis Ntousakis(Greece)2/ XI Certamen Internacional DeMicrocuento Fantástico miNatura 20135/ FrikiFrases6/ Editorial:9/ Interviewing Eduardo J. Carletti,Director of Axxón magazine17/ Poster: Catch me if you can/Javier Coscarelli (Argentina)18/ Summary:18/ Miedo, Mentiras y Tinta China:Fobias/ Rubert (Brasil)21/ The Curse/ Ana María Shua(Argentina)21/ Regression: The other life ofGregor Samsa/ Salomé GuadalupeIngelmo (Spain)22/ Phono/ Carlos Enrique Saldivar(Peru)22/ They won’t get me!/ SissyPantelis (Greece)23/ Disgusting/ Rodolfo Báez(Dominican Republic)23/ Amour fou/ Ricardo AcevedoEsplugas (Cuba)25/ Sleepless/ Tony Báez Milán(Puerto Rico)25/ Always Febos/ Patricia O.(Patokata) –seud.- (Uruguay)26/ A ballet night at the metropole /Violeta Balián (Argentina)27/ The day when Manolito lost hisafraid to the dark/ Carmen Rosa SignesUrrea (Spain)28/ Why do not you smile?/ TomásPacheco Estrada (Mexico)29/ Fobialepsia/ Deisy Toussaint(Dominican Republic)29/ Story of a phobia/ Juan Pablomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 18

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticNoroña (Cuba)30/ Warning/ Carlos Suchowolski(Argentina)30/ I will speak / Sarko Medina(Peru)30/ A phobia to flowers / Odilius Vlak–seud.- (Dominican Republic)31/ Waxing bathtub/ Juan Guinot(Argentina)32/ Reproach/ Cristina Jurado(Spain)33/ Ghosts of the night/ Mª. delSocorro Candelaria Zárate (Mexico)33/ Competition/ Omar Martínez(Cuba)34/ The bridge/ Tanya Tynjälä (Peru)35/ A Place Called Cold Town/ GorkaMoreno (Spain)36/ This underground world ofshadows / Pablo Martínez Burkett(Argentina)36/ Liberation/ Carlos Díez (Spain)37/ Psimodern Times/ FedericoMiguel Aldunate (Argentina)38/ Endophobia/ Mari CarmenCaballero Álvarez (Spain)39/ Experiment FID (Phobia Left-Right)/ Sebastian Ariel Fontanarrosa(Argentina)40/ Disgusting/ Sarko Medina (Peru)40/ Platonic phobias/ Odilius Vlak –seud.- (Dominican Republic)41/ Fotofóbica/ Mª. del SocorroCandelaria Zárate (Mexico)42/ Strictly a handshake / PabloMartínez Burkett (Argentina)43/ Nightmare/ Priscilla Hernández(Spain)44/ Stories of Mirrors: Alba/ GracielaMarta Alfonso (Argentina)46/ Freefall/ Sarko Medina (Peru)46/ There John The Rearles/ ManuelSantamaría Barrios (Spain)47/ Vertigo/ Ernesto Parrilla(Argentina)47/ It´s just the thing!/ Déborah F.Muñoz (Spain)48/ Labor complications/ SarkoMedina (Peru)49/ Cinderella covered my mouth /Majo López Tavani (Argentina)49/ You will never be free/ JuanPachón Ulierte (Spain)50/ Alarmed/ Lucila Adela Guzmán(Argentina)50/ Tick Tock/ Pedro López Manzano(Spain)51/ Cárnicas Marcianas, S.L./ RubénIbáñez González (Spain)52/ Vive en mí/ Texy Cruz –SEUD.-(Spain)53/ The Z civilization:Reptanophobia/ Raquel Sequeiro(Spain)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 19

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic53/ Selacofobia/ David Calvo Sanz(Spain)54/ The patch/ Rocío Rubio Bores(Spain)54/ La Image/ Diego Galán Ruiz(Spain)55/ No prospect/ María José GilBenedicto (Spain)56/ Stink bugs!/ Tony Báez Milán(Puerto Rico)56/ Ligophobia/ Carlos EnriqueSaldivar (Peru)57/ Don’t switch off the light/ TanyaTynjälä (Peru)58/ Street Aby/ Amancio De Lier(Mexico)58/ The number/ Violeta Balián(Argentina)60/ Poster: Número/ Miriam Ascúa(Argentina)61/ La Biblioteca del Nostromo:Korad (Cuba); Akiba-Tan (Cuba);Akiba-Tan (Cuba); PlanetasProhibidos (España);Futuroscopia; Penumbría(México); Penumbría(México); HeladosCibernéticos (Caza deLibros); Efímera (Samsara);Dead, and must travel; En eljardín del Edén (Kelonia); DeMonstruos y Trincheras (EspiralCiencia Ficción); El secreto deExcalibur (Factoría de Ideas); LeEspada Leal (Factoría de Ideas);Anima Mundí (Minotauro); El Libro deLos Portales (Minotauro); Susurros (OzEditorial); 1º Crónica, Vampiroadolescente (Factoría de Ideas);Primeros Exiliados (Tahiel); LosMicros de Cthullu (Leyendas.net); LosCaminantes (Timún Mas); Tramórea,La cacería secreta (Timún Mas).78/ About the Authors and Illustrators92/ About the Illustrations93/ Back cover: Sweet Dreams/Carlos Valenzuela (Chile)Next issue:Dystopiamay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 20

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThe Curse 2The old man dies cursinghis assassin. No one knowswhat the curse consists of.The assassin lives with aconstant sense of dread. Afortune-teller assures himthat this daily fear is thecurse. Until the day of hisdeath, the assassin won’tknow that the fortune-tellerwas wrong. Afterwards, itwill be too late.Ana María Shua (Argentina)RegressionThe other life of Gregor SamsaShocking: one morning, withoutwarning, while preparing to shave, hecannot recognize his hands. Hediscovers that they have been changedby others absolutely unknown.–A simple perception disorder.They're your own hands, do nothesitate. You work too much, that's theproblem. It’s far more common thanyou would think. Modern man, beingunder so much stress, suffers anendless number of phobias anddisorders. The brain is a mystery2 Microfictions, University of Nebraska Press,2009. Translate by Steven Stewart.because it is constantly evolving,explains his psychiatrist.An hallucination product of my mind.I work too hard, he repeats to himselfon that day the five-legged beast beginsto glare more threatening than usual athim.But nature takes its course; theinstinct cannot be silenced. Misfortunesalways come in threes. And if one thingcan get worse, it will surely get worse.One day, while the life of a spider ishanging confidently of an invisiblethread, the higher brain gives thecommand. He pretends to give theorder to a hand that belongs to him.Although deep down, he knows thatthis hand is strange to him. The rollednewspaper falls to the floor. Anunknown force, an invisible shield, amysterious magnetic field appears toprotect the innocent convicted prisoner.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 21

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThe five-legged limb, recognizing itseight-legged congener, in full crisis ofanthropophobia, jumps on his jailer.Having felt a sense of solidarity andrevenge, the limb stabs him with hispowerful chelicerae, inoculating himthe deadly poison into the pulsingjugular vein.On the neck of the corpse, instead often marks, one for each fingernail ofthe anonymous murderer, five for eachhand, only two tiny punctures.–Accidental death. No doubt this is anarachnid attack, says the coroner.The inspector, satisfied, closes thecase. Having found the body cyanoticlike a Smurf, he would have bet it wasa murder: strangulation. And yet ... somany people are killed by stings andbites throughout the year...On the deceased, a broad smile ofrelief–that police confuse with aninvoluntary rictus–celebrates his sanity,definitely unquestionable.Salomé Guadalupe Ingelmo (Spain)Disgusting 3Being with her was disgusting. Youfelt open, like a frog in a lab. In front ofher eyes it wasn´t more than amountain of tensed nervous in thewhim of God. She wouldn´t see a3 Translated by: Jeff and Jake Wheatmierdécima that would possess in thebeats of the heart. She only heard itfrom her giant stethoscope like if inany moment the damned thing wasgoing to hyperventilate. She was amonster, ugly and ordinary in thesimplest sense possible. She touchedevery vein with plain hands, rubbingher hands in the coarse part of the bodywithout any emotion comingwhatsoever. Her coarseness didn´tallow her to discover that in thatdamned machine there where points ofpleasure; Lazaros who with a simpletouch revives it full of life, Judas wouldgive up the purse, to get intoMagdalena´s skirt. But no, I bet shedied without discovering it. What adamage the university did to her, themedicine killed her. That´s why shealways wore a white lab coat.Rodolfo Báez (Dominican Republic)Amour fou−No, I never will! −Shouted theprincess as two big nurses deposited inthe padded room.−Batrachophobia! −Ruled the courtpsychoanalyst.Next to the pond are heard painsonnets disconsolately frog prince.Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas (Cuba)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 22

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticPhonoGina was a lovely girl. I met herbecause she was a close friend of hisparents. The things she wrote wereexcellent: poems, essays, stories oflove and fantasy, these always have ahappy ending, even though in thosestories had always horrifying monstersthat in the end never managed todestroy the protagonists. One of thosestories greatly impressed me, was astory about a girl who looked in themirror and was attacked by hisreflection, which she said horriblethings to the heroin, which covered herears, then removed his hearing and,deaf, facing his enemy. Gina wasfabulous. So regretted his early death atage seventeen. No one could explainwhat had led her to suicide. The policeinvestigated, as I was close to thefamily, participated in theinvestigation. We thought for amoment that perhaps the particularityof the girl had caused some depression.Gina did not speak. Not because shewas dumb. She did not spoke bychoice. Her parents took her to doctors,psychologists and psychiatrists. One ofthe doctors had revealed that she wassuffering from phonophobia. It allcame to a trauma. She remained silentsince she was four years old when herpet puppy, was brutally murdered bysomeone who entered in her yardthrough the back door of her house.Days after his death, her motherrecalled, crying, the fact. Her fatherlooked at me with pity and say: "Thevictim could be our daughter, we willnever forget what happened that day, Ido not blame mi daughter by hersilence, I cannot imagine what mychild lived that time". A week after thetragedy, a neighbor said she saw Ginaon the street, talking to herself. Nomore she knew because the girl thenwent to her house (which was empty),took a knife, went to her room and didherself all kind of cuts to bleed todeath. Her parents found her when onlyjust died. It case was weird. Gina didnot speak. The neighbor said she hadheard the girl speak these phrases: "Doit, you have no choice. Do it! ". Iunderstand the decision of theirparents, they bury her without theirvocal cords, which were extracted inthe morgue and were incinerated.Carlos Enrique Saldivar (Peru)They won’t get me!It started when grandma died. I wasjust five, but as soon as I saw hermotionless in the coffin, so beautiful inher white dress, she looked so muchlike them that I knew immediately thatthey had taken her away. They did thisto everybody. Some day they wouldalso take me.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 23

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThey haunted my dreams. As soon asthe light was off, they startedwhispering terrifying things into mymind. I was forced to stay there andlisten to them, my mind trapped in mybody like grandma in her coffin; Icould neither scream nor run away.One night they told me that if I toldanybody about them, I would dieimmediately. So Isuffered all theyimposed to me – thenight terrors, thesleepless nightswhen they keptthreatening me inthe darknesswithout movingtheir lips and- mostrevolting of all!−the daylight whenthey stared at mewith the biginnocent eyes of acruel hypocriticalkid mocking myweakness.On my fifteenthbirthday, I decided that this wasenough. I tried to kill a few of them butfailed. I only brought their wrath uponme; they tortured me so much that Ithought I would go insane.I tried to avoid them as much aspossible, but this wasn’t easy. Theyhave strongholds in town; they forcepoor kids to take them to the park.Nowadays, I pretend to be cool whenthey are around. Actually, my heartbeats like a mad hammer and I shiverso much I think I’ll faint, but I don’t letthem sense my fear.My latest strategy seems to work.They don’t annoyme as much as theyused to. So I took astep further. Ichanged my look. Iam so much likethem that the otherday I looked at themirror I scaredmyself. Now I fearmirrors too. Atleast, my enemiesleave me alone.They think I havesubmitted to them.They don’t knowthat I actuallyprepare myrevenge. I willpretend to be like them to know theirweaknesses; then I will destroy them.All of them.In the meantime, I have to be careful.They must not suspect what I am up to.This is difficult, but I am good atkeeping secrets.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 24

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticI still fear them; I will always do untilthe day I know none of them is left inthe world to annoy me.I won’t let them ruin my life.I won’t allow those stupid dolls to get to me.Sissy Pantelis (Greece)SleeplessSo afraid was he of sleeping, that hecould not sleep. The medications, in acentury when all the cyber pages werenot enough to keep up with theadvances of science, were not sufficientto maintain the beast of night, the fiendof dawn, at the edge of his life. Hetook pills that made you forget, butthey were useless as his body had builtup resistance.Very late one night, the door open, hestood holding on to the frame, seeingthat the world was turning into a placewhere plants were truly alive, for theymoved, not just with the wind but withown nerves, where giant salamandersprocreated, he saw them chasing eachother, where in the dark you could hearblood-curdling screams that were nolonger human, where all things startedto smell like vinegar, even flowers,which turned, everywhere, the color ofblood.He blinked, trying to erase it all fromhis mind, trying to rip it all from insideof him, damned useless pills, but theworld was truly degenerating, turninginto this.His heart could not take any more inanother instant, the time it took him torealize that he opened his eyes, that hehad awakened.Tony Báez Milán (Puerto Rico)Always FebosHis state is lamentable butnevertheless it comes to work. Nobodydares to question it for his aspect, afterall it keeps on expiring with hisfunctions with great efficiency. To theexit of the work it goes for a short walkto do some personal procedure and thenit returns to house. The dinner does andit tidies the place up a little, lives aloneand does not have the one who it helps.More brought in the night it sits downin the living and lights the TV set,takes sign as a cable so theprogramming is not interrupted duringthe whole night. With difficulty itremains in wake until another day,without daring to go to bed, givingcabezaditas not to fall down slept; andif he falls asleep during great momentit wakes up shouting, with sensationsof asphyxia and the dry mouth,trembling and sweating of copiousform, with the anxiety identical withthe eyes. As every night, one raises andlights all the lights, loaded coffee does,he washes its face repeatedly tomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 25

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticconquer the sleep, chooses a book orchanges the channel that was lookingfor more entertaining other and raisesenough the volume. It sighs resignedand, on having done it, closes the eyesagainst his will but it opens themimmediately not to succumb before thefatigue. He always appears in his sleep,for more brief that they are, with theeyes of fire and the sharp and deadlyteeth. He cannot fall asleep if he doesnot want that Febos murders it, as hepromised him since it invaded hissleep, when he was a child and it killsalmost it of the impression.Since then, the alone idea of thinkingof sleeping fills it with fright. Themedical world calls Oneirofobia, itcalls it a Terror.Patricia O. (Patokata) –seud.- (Uruguay)A ballet night at themetropole 4Galina Orlova looks at herself in thegreat mirror. She is pleased. In notime at all the elegant black tutu anddazzling tiara have transformed herinto Odile, the enigmatic black swanand by far, her best role as primaballerina assoluta with the Ballet R.But just as she is leaving the theatre´swardrobe salon to return to her dressingroom, she picks up her shawl lying on atable and notices a pierced-through loafof bread. “That´s the work of amouse”, she points in disgust beforegoing back to her dressing room andsuddenly assaulted by images ofvermin inhabiting the walls´ interiors.Obsessed, she checks corners anddrawers. She finds nothing. “Fifteenminutes and we´re on”, warns Alekseiwearing the Magician´s weirdheaddress and huge grey cape.“Damned, decrepit theatre”, complainsthe ballerina while her colleague triesto calm her down by assuring her she isthe best Odile ever; better thanFonteyn. Half-way through the thirdact the Magician leads Odile onto thestage and she starts the black swan4 Translation: N. Beredjiklianmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 26

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticvariations with the Prince. In betweenturns she appears to pick up a hustleand bustle at floor level. The orchestraannounces the traditional 32 rondes dejambees fouettés en tournant 5 . Leaningon her left leg and flat foot, la Orlovaturns arm and shoulder to the right andcompletes the first spin in a vertiginoussuccession of thirty more. Then, sherigourously continues with heraccelerated bravura work despite theinstantaneous attack of a throng ofmice who run up her legs, hang fromher arms, bite her ferociously andadvancing on her torso gather on herhead to spin on the human top with 23rounds now counting. Taken over byher phobic repulsion and the invaders´slippery weight, la Orlova diminishesher speed and makes a full stop atcenter stage revealing a maceratedbody and the face covered in blood.Agonizing, the woman now crawlstoward the Magician who wraps her inhis huge cape to hide her last moments.At the old Metropole, the audienceapplauds feverishly. The curtain falls.Only the “experts” ask themselves whythe local press did not mention thechanges in choreography nor theunexpected visual effects.Violeta Balián (Argentina)5 The other "working" leg is whippedaround to the sideThe day whenManolito lost hisafraid to the darkManolito reached the school beforethey did the day and left after nightfall,his father took care of it. Manolito wasten years old and from the first day atschool, received special attention fromthe teachers.Manolito said little as his grandfatherCharles glossophobia sick, explainedthat he was afraid to do so and had notridden never drive like his mother, whosuffered a strong ocofobia, somethingrelated to vehicles. A Manolito wouldhave liked to be a pirate, but hisgrandfather Miguel infected him sostrong apprehension to water or bathewanted. There were days when youcould not be with him, which is why, toget them aseara, his grandmotherElena, maniacal odors, threatened tosend ablutofóbico with her husbandwho lived in the attic.A Manolito also the dark scared himand was unable to be with the lights offso he always carried with a flashlightand extra batteries.Manolito's greatest dream was to belike his father who could only live atnight.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 27

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticIt was proposed to overcome theirfears and so began to leave off the lightevery day a little more time, until youbeat.− ... You know? If you do the same asme, but by day, sure you can beat yourdad disease.'But son, he said, are never going tobe like me.−Why do not you, Dad? Theheliofobia no worse than what I had.What you got?−Look, Manolito, your dad has had tosay because nobody would understandthat what really happens is that I'm avampire.Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea (Spain)Why do not yousmile?That being abominable her skin asthe headstone of a grave, his nose andmouth were stained with blood. Theridiculous tiny hat to his head, and thatdamn laugh multicolored dress thatdark skin crawl.- Why do not you smile?He said the clown and I panicked atthe sight of that monster aberrant fromhell, since childhood I'm afraid ofclowns, causing me indescribablehorror. I imagine your mouth iscrimson red which is the residue of theblood they have left to eat children. Iturn away from him, my mouth dry, myheart racing, cold sweat bathedmy forehead like pearls and ashiver through my body. I fellto the ground, believing funnyclown approached me, touchedme with his hand for me weresatanic fingers strangling thechildren. Terrified, I droppedto the floor in a fetal position,I began to mourn pleading.'Please do not eat me, or takemy soul to hell.The variegated colorsnightmarish beast sat on meand the public is the funny didfinally that damned monstermay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 28

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticstood up and walked away a piousalama helped me to rejoin between funof people, I was left in shock. Whathappened to me was horrible, not hate!It's a lie, I'm terrified of clowns. I wantto overcome this irrational fear, I wentto his tent, poked my head. I sawchildren in a cage still locked, theclown cut onion in a table, Iapproached him by the back, disarmedhim value arming myself with myhands and hanged him.-Die you bastard, go back to hellwhere it never should have left.That infernal monster lay lying on theground, dead. I walked over to the cageand inside there was a child but aventriloquist dummy. It was all afigment of my imagination and startedlaughing like crazy standing there.'Ha, ha, ha.Tomás Pacheco Estrada (Mexico)FobialepsiaHe thought it was dreaming when hewoke under the ground.Deisy Toussaint (Dominican Republic)Story of a phobiaThe child is on the carpet, advisedgrandma, pick him up. Don’t go out tothe back yard to all that dirt,commanded mother. Don’t pickanything from the sidewalk, is filthy,chastised the nanny. Always stumbling,have you no legs, grumbled father. Hemarried a scrubber, an aunt disparageda former fiancé. Stock market is on thefloor, grunted an older cousin. I’llswipe the floor tiles with your face,threatened the schoolyard bully. Youngmen, pontificated the dean, you are toexalt the motherland, and you are tostop the underground maneuvers of thebasest interests. Pansies kiss the floor,give me thirty! demanded the academysergeant. We’ll spend the war intrenches, lamented the soldiers in hisplatoon. He kept the banner up, readthe battle report, and he himself stoodthough his blood mudded the dirt. Thisone will reach the highest rank, theywhispered in the officer’s mess hall.General, you’ll know how to keep thegutter scum in place, the magnatesopined. It is for me to erase the telluricatavism of the nation, roared he in hisinauguration speech, and put Her in thepinnacle of civilization. Thepresidential sash must remain on thisman’s enlightened chest, is not to belowered to the demagogic hustling likea scrubber’s rag, is not to befall ontobase, crawling individuals, admonishedthe captive media. And my mortalremains shall be placed standing insidea bronze statue, atop a pedestal at leastsixty feet tall, stated his political lastwill and testament. Kept them all undermy boot, he confessed to the priest, allmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 29

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticof them between the floor and me! Dowe throw him on this ditch? thesoldiers asked. No, said the coupleaders who had exiled his son andsuccessor, find the deepest pit andthrow a lot of dirt on him.Juan Pablo Noroña (Cuba)Warning"He who dares enter will be devouredby an incontinent monster," read thenote attached outside the door of myroom. On the other side there was notone, anything he had known beforelock myself. I knew, of course, but ...just in case. My ghosts were very afraidof my monsters and so would remainaway.Carlos Suchowolski (Argentina)I will speakLook, I know I never will understandmy problem, but now I know ... Icannot talk to people directly, I canonly do it by signs and written, so theythink I'm dumb. But I can tell if theyare asleep, as you do now, because Ilove you much understand?, So I haveto keep her sedated for life. I know thatin the end you will understand, now letme put you the serum, while I tell youas I was in the day ...Sarko Medina (Peru)A phobia to flowersThe exuberant flowering of the gardenwas the very symbol of spring; it gavethe impression that with each blow offresh air the colorful season madespring up another flower in it: roses,poppies, jasmines, gladioluses, orchids,carnations, white lilies, pansies, tulips,lilies, hyacinths, geraniums, etc., therapture of colors and scents wasbeyond the boundaries of humansenses. At the middle of its labyrinthinestructure, and just at the feet of afountain shaped like a lotus flower, awoman lied with her arms wrappedaround herself; she was sobbing andcasting furtive glances everywhere,along with hysterical and sorrowfulshrieks: "Please, please —she imploredwith a quivering voice—... Vanishthem, damnit!... Keep them away fromme!" Suddenly, the holographic realityof the garden started to disappear insymmetric blocks, as if it were a kindof third dimensional puzzle, till onlythe woman was left lying on the floorof a very comfortable lounge. Therecame a male voice soft, yet firm: "Youcan open your eyes."This case had taken many hours ofDr. Herman Francisco del Monte'ssleep, occultist and psychoanalystspecialized in phobias and obsessionsinherited from past lives. But at last,after long treatments with hypnosis andmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 30

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticeven deep incursions in his patient'sdreamland, thanks to the interfacesconnecting both neo cortex in a state ofdeep sleep induced by synthetic drugs...He found out the origin of that sinisterphobia to flowers! In a bizarre case ofreincarnation, his patient was in a pastlive a figure of Greek mythology: shewas Persephone, daughter of Zeus andDemeter.It was very clear that the unconsciousmemory of being capture by the god ofthe underworld, Hades, while she waspicking up flowers in company of hernymphs in the Enna's fields, developedin this life a deadly phobia to flowers.This reincarnation also explained thestrange spring that came over theworld... With flowers of gloomy colors,according to the mind set of whominspired it.Odilius Vlak (Dominican Republic)Waxing bathtubFor pensioners is what they see: a whitetub. For me, the task of removing one byone the little hairs stuck together on thedishes, put them in a bag, pull the plasticto remove the air and suffocating. Thesepensioners do not know what I do know.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 31

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticFor years (not less than twenty-five, nosooner had come to this board), on hisway to take a shower with my towel tiedto the armpit. With my right hand Iopened the curtain and a furry beastpounced me. I could not ask for helpbecause my mouth came a kind of towhairy rotten taste of soap. As soon as theball of hair was gone, leaving me with theknot of the towel to atura ankles and soapybreasts.Since then asked to work on the board,just to keep the tub clean.Each morning, fingernails and fingertips,fish one by one hair strands. And I'll takethe easy target of the capture on the slab.Also auscultated the tips of the grid of thetub, the discharge hole which is usuallymarked by a metal cross. They put myfingers in excitement. And, notinfrequently, to pull the observable fainttrace of a hair silky straight, have broughtto the surface a tuber of curly hair, fatty,dyed, flowered, different heads, waitingfor more hair. I know that the tract of thedownload is the lead uterus where thebeast feat rotten smell. That bug will notleave. Not while I live on this board andcharge me with rigorous zeal, depilatory,every night, the bathtub.Juan Guinot (Argentina)ReproachCould you blame me for what I did,brother? You, who knows the source ofmy terror, would you have the nervesto censure me? Wait; let me apply theeye drops… Don´t you pity me! Yourcompassion will not alleviate myafflictions nor will cure my spirit. Andyet, they say that I lost my reason,don´t they? People, soacknowledgeable and prudent, wastetheir days gossiping about me. But,with all their wisdom, they haven´tfound comfort for my misfortunes. DidI said, misfortunes? I meant to sayProvidence. Bear with me; I need toapply more drops… We are all in debtof one destiny or another. Pay attentionto my words! Fortune is a capriciousconcubine, who becomes easily jealousof the man blessed by nature´s gifts.My good figure was envied by men andsighted upon by woman, wasn´t it? Atthe balls, some ladies faint after mypassage, didn´t they? My rivals gave inat the card table or the sports field, isn´ttrue? I amassed plentiful benefits frommy investments, didn´t I? Listen andgive me a second… I need to apply thelenitive. Answer to my questions: Isthere a lie in what I tell? You mustunderstand now how amusing I was forthe Fortune. After squeezing out of meall she could, she condemned me toeternal light. She found the shelter ofmy weakness and stirred it up until itbecame intolerable. I never liked “newmooned”nights, or closed rooms, orcinematographic lounges! Since mydemons were unleashed, I never leavewithout oil lamps or lanterns. My fatemakes me a penitent, you will agreemay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 32

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticwith me. Stop, and allow me to calmthe burning in my eyes. Why is yourgaze so evasive? What do you fear? Isit the vision of my eyes without theireyelashes so horrendous? I slice themup, by my own hand, to escape fromthe tormenting darkness.Cristina Jurado (Spain)Ghosts of the nightToday I am three weeks without sleepor an hour a day. Doctors want to getme in the hospital because they say thatI am not only bad health, they believethatI’m affectedof my mental faculties.But I try to stay away from doctors andhospitals, they do not understandanything about what happens to me.Sleep is bad, negative things happenwhen I sleep, one's life changes andeverything gets worse. That's why Iavoid sleep.I still remember when my wife was inthe hospital for a heart condition, shehad been hospitalized for days andnightsand I had to take care of her butthe sleep and fatigue overcame me andI ended up falling asleep so deeply thatI heard when she started to choke, justuntil entered nurses and doctors wokeup, but it was too late, my beloved Juliahad died.Then came the endless nights ofterrible nightmares, woke upset andfrightened, my heart about to jump outof my chest, so I began to fight for notsleeping. Keeping me awake I havecontrol over my life. Although now inthe hospital I was diagnosedsomnofobia, I refuse to believe it ...somno what, I said to the doctors whotreated me in the emergency room aweek ago that my daughter took mewhen I found very deteriorated and saidI was hallucinating. Doctors are crazyand my daughter even more, now theywant to get me in a psychiatric clinic totreat me as it should be. I'm not crazy!So stay with the front door of my houselocked and bolted with a chair, andnobody bothered me.Today I feel better than ever, now isthe night and fought enough sleep, forthe first time in a long time I have notsleep or tiredness, I feel fresh. This willbe a great night, I hear the sound ofsandals Julia crawling down the hall, Isit and when I see his shadow shape inthe door of the room shouted:—Julia, love that you get good, thiswill be a fantastic night for the two.Mª. del Socorro Candelaria Zárate (Mexico)CompetitionIt was for sure it would not support tobe the last one. But its phobia for notbeing the first one in arriving was evenbigger! If that happened, what wouldcome later…?may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 33

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticMany began the conflict. He ran, heswimed and slipped among theiropponents, it even pushed to severaluntil making them loses the road.Finally he entered first, but the secondmade it almost at once.It began a new challenge then amongthe two finalists. Their mistrust andtheir fear lasted the whole time. Itcould notconquer thetremendousaffliction forthepossibility ofarriving last.Theirdisadvantagewas that fearto lose, to besecond.The finalpoint wasalreadynoticed; itcould notallow the opponent to take advantage,with her last forces; withoutencouragement and totally fainted itpassed the goal first…Countless they were the efforts torevive it, and its sister's sublime cry noteven made it react. The tremendousphobia to lose the he deprived ofknowing the world:—Mom made all the possible one…,they could be some beautiful twins —they told to the youth that happy, and atthe same time tearful she took in armsto her first daughter.Omar Martínez (Cuba)The bridgeIt is so difficult to watch them passwithout thatunpleasantshiveringtaking overhis wholebody. Theterrorinvades himlittle bylittle, withevery step,and he onlywishes to seethem reachthe endwhile theyMachiavellianly stop halfway to take a photo ofthemselves. If only he could take thosestupid grins off of their faces!And they pass and stop and continuepassing, giving him vertigo, nausea andthe intense pain of the female heels. Somany germs! So many diseases! Somany vulgar streets traversed! Nowonder the oldest bridge in Paris hadmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 34

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticdeveloped this terrible phobia towardspeople!Tanya Tynjälä (Peru)A Place Called ColdTown25th of December of 1975, the snowmade an appearance, covering the townwith its icy mantle. It was somethingunique, there are no historical recordsof previous snowfall in the village ofCold Town, the name by which it isknown now. Of all households thechildren came out stampeding like apack of wild animals. - Be careful! -The parents shouted from the door.Screams, laughs and even some tears,flooded the streets, cold or gifts thatSanta had left home that morningmatters little, that was an unrepeatablemoment. In households were given thefinishing touches to Christmas lunch,and suddenly the pitch screaming gaveway to silence. Cries of fathers andmothers calling their children began tobe heard at every corner. The confusiongave way to concern. The townspeopleretreated to their homes after endlesshours of fruitless searching, when inthe distance they saw what looked likethe figure of a child who was walkingtoward them, - Johnny! - Shouted afather in tears while he were running tohis son. The child was naked, withoutany scratch, his father hugged him butJohnny was separated from him, as ifhe didn´t know him, he madethousands of questions trying to figureout what had happened, where were theother children, but he didn't speak,didn't speak anymore. Theydisappeared without a trace. The snowtook with her the future and leavebehind heartbroken tears.A group of residents follow to Dr.Einnabijd, taking notes through thehalls of Rosell Psychiatric Centre . Thedoctor stops at the door 512. -He has60 years old, was found with 8 yearsabandoned on the door of the center,possible childhood trauma .., lies thisway since then, his name is JohnMartins - young learners flock to thedoor and watch. He is standing staringat the small window of his room,watching the leaden gray day ofDecember 25,- continue please ... -Said the Dr., and resumed the walk. Agirl looked out the window excitedbecause snowflakes began to settle onthe sill. A heartbreaking scream inpanic and agony crossed the hall,causing the confusion, the girl grabbedher mother fearful. All eyes turned theroom was 512.Gorka Moreno (Spain)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 35

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThis undergroundworld of shadows 6Say not a word, he answered, in death'sfavour; I would rather be a paid servant in apoor man's house and be above ground thanking of kings among the dead.Odissey – Book XICoughing, Sneezing, Tears, drool.Caresses, whips. A indolent waiter inthe toilet. Urine, blood, pus, semen,secretions. Brain ravioli. A dog shittingin the sandbox. Doorknobs, handrails,seats, elevators. Poorly washed glasses.A casino chip. A treacherous leech.Bills, bills, bills. A sucked-pen. A pieceof gum lying on the sidewalk.Wastewater irrigated fruit. At thepublic library a reader who turns thepages of a book wetting his finger withsaliva. The feverish breath of lovers. Apublic swimming pool. A hotel pillow.The horror of the dressing rooms at theclub. Sushi with questionablerefrigeration. The sand of the sea.Crowds waiting on a platform for atrain that never comes. The disgustingindustry of worms in a coffin. Thepassport at an airport passing fromhand to hand. A urinal´s purulentconcavity. A splinter under thefingernail. A hammock in the park.Mayonnaise beyond expiration date.6 With the invaluable help of Violeta Baliánin translation.Cinema chairs. The fish in rivers andoceans. A swarm of hungrymosquitoes. An innocent visit to thedentist. The north stand at the Classicon Sunday. Feeding the giraffe at thezoo and getting your fingers licked.Hugging a relative that has just arrivedfrom abroad. The newspaper at thedoor. Dumbbells at the gym. A can ofsoda where a rat slept on. Overcrowdedsubways. The mad rush of unprotectedsex. A dubious hen. A coworker’sinvisible eczema that has pierced torsoand legs. A radioactive leak. A fallenmeteorite from outer space. Anundercooked hamburger in the fastfood store. A dull barber´s razor. Azombie nightmare. The horror ofknowing that everywhere and in themost unexpected places, the fiercestviruses and bacteria craft theirhomicidal goldsmith. None of thesethings will happen to me. But mostcertainly to anyone of my disloyalneighbors. And this is how I will catchthem. Fear of being sick and notknowing it. Palpitations. Fragility.Indomitable anxiety. Anguish. Coldsweats. I can barely speak. Fear.Horror.Pablo Martínez Burkett (Argentina)LiberationThat happy time when we were so unhapp .Alexandre Dumas.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 36

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic—So easy? One vaccination and itnever happens to me again?—So easy. I know it seems incredible,but the double-blind tests, shows thatthe medicine’s effects remains, eventhey strengthened with the pass of time.—Sure? Let me explain myself… Ican’t believe not to have panic to flight.Every time Saul remembered that talk,he believes that it was in another life.The life in wich the mere fact of take aplane caused him insufferable sickness.Five years later, he spends his savingsin journeys and holidays around theplanet. Even he decided somedestinations by the longer time of theflight. He felt that he had to getrevenge of a life full of deprivations.The doctors put him as example ofpatient in who the medicine wasstrengthened with the time. They heldwith him his first journey in anaerostatic balloon, his license ofairplane’s pilot and his first parachute’sjump. When he reached to theparagliding and the hang glider, he hadbecome a celebrity by the media andthe pharmaceutical company.His old primitive panic left its spaceto one unstoppable passion. Hedreamed about go across every skies,know every landscapes at bird’s eyeview. His own body began to be a cagetoo constricted to gravity. The forensicpsychiatrist never could determine if hewas plenty conscious of what he wasdoing before he jumped from theskyscraper.Carlos Díez (Spain)Psimodern TimesThere are two marked and separatedstates in the mind, to feel and toperceive that feels. This is a dividedworld where one can find the originalsthat feel and perceive that they feel,those who don´t feel but perceive thatthey don´t feel, and the null case. Nowwhat to say about the mysteriousbeings that feel but don´t perceive thatthey feel, that´s rare, I don´t know ifthey are humans, I don´t know what ahell they are, he thought, and althoughhe imagine that someone put a hand inhis shoulder and joked “they are calledex-girlfriends man” that really didn´thappened, instead he heard a voice inecho in his head:− Things are coming clear, right?…lack of serotonin phobia. How thepharmacopeia is going on I don´t find itstrange, after the contraceptive vodkaoutburst and the contaminated cargo ofpsionic drugs, what to say?…may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 37

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic− But who? Was I thinking out loud?- he said to the air with a look ofconfusion.− Didn’t open your mouth, but I hearyou. It may be a little psychotropicamnesia, a few milligrams of…−¡No no! I´m fine, just lost track alittle bit. Thanks!…doctor.Federico Miguel Aldunate (Argentina)EndophobiaThe crowd stirred gorge outside thebedroom window, the front row propyour elbows on the sill. The brutalscene of a topless woman, beheaded,lying on the tile floor almost as red asblood pool make out, his head piercedby two machetes wowed them. Byorder of the Lord Mayor the town ofeggshell has declared a day ofmourning.He rejected his body tearing her flesh.At night Amaro and are recomposedback knowing she never love himbecause he did not own him.He hated himself and felt phobia. Thefruits of the earth sought not eatbecause feeding the agony of not beingable to get out of it. Fled "a facelessbody stature" that his mind refusedbecause the chase. When you breathe,air cursed.-Always runaway from me, findingsite-spit, vomit and wipes snot oncamisole, to wipe the tears on the sideof groans flight.His phobia constantly flowed from it,without face or stature: just a body. Acommon name a thing itself. Not lovedbut was loved by the butcher. Thefringes tattered dreams were palpatedin your own skin scarified, sweaty,repulsive, feared ... trapped in a bodywhere sensation prevailed terrifying.-In the burnished steel scythe mirageread in my identity.No, did not close the door to theworld as he wanted: the world hasclosed the door to it.-Lost inside me, I can not explain howI came to nothing turned intosomething to be something come tonaught. I would not know. Never Inoticed the sunlight never.Attributed to a genetic component thatintrinsic rejection, relieved his heart bya machine. Made one ember floated inthe wake of his fears, he wanted to betin, tin or cardboard. One day the echoof his footsteps, yaplas, yaplas,acorralaría its scope. He stopped shortwhen dawn came Amaro, the butcher,calling for his head to make aimbunche as she had demanded.Mari Carmen Caballero Álvarez (Spain)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 38

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticExperiment FID(Phobia Left-Right)It has created a trauma in the night.The threshold then opens in a rangementally sensitive, fragile as butterflywings. Lamina breaking alar be aphobia. The darkness phobia is thebasis on which we explayaremos forthe individual to develop livelihoodpotential to end his photophobia.Furthermore it will provide a sense ofmental formation linked to itsmembership to defend the territorialscope as an animal to even lose theirlives. These same techniquesantagonistic grade but also want themto be developed in a second individualof livelihood, is an annex of lastminute, gentlemen. One kill people atnight and the other killed in the days.The island has a population density andsocial environment five years ago andhas been selected and perfectlyprepared, monitored by the three armedforces and the police island. Thisproject FID advance the nextgeneration of fighters, limiting thetimes of war or raids withoutstimulants. We armies compact,dynamic offense and tirelessly apparentcyclical, regenerative resources andforces, as a symbiotic unit identical andyet so different. Light and shadowtogether enlightened, more than perfectgear to activate the disk, standalone,instinctive, tapers in the days to his rearand at night by its vanguard. All cropsbased trauma and phobias. This is verypromising. Work!The FID experiment gave excellentresults in early. Six murders a day,three day and three night. Ten yearslater a trial before a foray into Africaends in slaughter by the effects of asolar eclipse occurring variedmanifestations. Suicides, leaks,(neutralized) and fatal encountersbetween the sides phobic. Two hundredsouls went out in that beautifulexpression of the universe thanelsewhere in the world and of thehuman mind wake sighs of admiration.Sebastián Ariel Fontanarrosa (Argentina)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 39

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticDisgustingFormer God left things unfinished, thedominant species that would awakenhis conscience and feed us with yourprayers and prayers, should descendfrom dinosaurs, but the othermiscalculation Centauri God caused asmall rock that crashed in Earth. Now Ihave to support the transfer of theplanet in my care with these hairlessapes who have learned to speak andcommunicate. My duty is to guidethem toward a full worship to us bysatisfiers and awards ... But, since I amthe ruler of order, will bring to theworship through pain and fear ... and Ireally hate these creatures sick hairlessaggggghhhh.Sarko Medina (Peru)Platonic phobiasHello, I´m speaking to all of youfrom Phobiopolis, a city placed in anoutlawed point from every space-timecontinuum. Here we, the "PlatonicPhobias", celebrate a meeting to debateaffairs concerning the human's fears;no, I'm not pulling your leg. The true isthat phobias, just like the PlatonicIdeas, are archetypical realities that castdown our influence from a planeparallel to theirs; and just like them, wecome down through thehyperdimensionality that framed everyphysical reality in order to fulfill ourmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 40

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticcosmic duty: turn fear into amechanism to keep the human's mindalert... turn it into one of his manyspiritual experiences. That's the reasonwhy we mock at every endeavor thathas been made through the humanhistory to driven us away from hisnature, believing that we only inhabithis mental plane.From the psychological purgativecall Catharsis, the machine war ofAristotle and the Greek theater, till thefairy tale call psychoanalysis, we havetriumphed over all battles. No wonder,for they're fighting not with maretraumatic experiences from childhoodor colorful obsessions secluded in theunconscious, but with universal laws.You know better than us the variety ofphobias we have at the disposition ofthe human being. Einstein suffered aphobia of Newton's universe, and howthe whole affair ended up?Even an horror writer call H. P.Lovecraft, conceived a new phobia: theFear to the Unknown. I must confessthat this concept have made us to rackour brains, since it's a phobic archetypeof which any of us have the slightestidea. Perhaps, we overstepped ourbounds with the nightmares we madehim suffered. And now are we, thePlatonic Phobias, who feel fear withthis new spectrum among us. And ontop of it, the very coward perpetuatedhis new phobia with this philosophicalstatement: "That is not dead which caneternal scare, and through strangephobias even dead can be afraid."Odilius Vlak (Dominican Republic)Fobofóbica—Mrs. Mercedes tell me, what youbrings to my office?—Well Doctor, my kids think that I'mnot good, suppose something happens.—What is the problem?—I just don't like to be alone becauseI'm afraid and I don't want to be afraid.—What are you afraid of?—I don't know, well, it depends, forexample, in my house I have a fear ofghosts.—Have you seen any ghost or youbelieve have heard any strange noise?—Of course not, I'm not crazy.—Well Mrs. Mercedes, if you comefrom the street also afraid of theghosts?—No, of course not, there not areghosts at the street, in that place I'mafraid of living people.—Are you afraid of they could hurtyou? I guess, they could slay you orcommit an assault.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 41

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic—Yes, the times are tough and thereare a lot of violence in the streets.—Have you experienced any violentevent that has marked your life?—No, no, never Doctor, I live in aquiet neighborhood and I never lookfor problems.—Well, Mrs. Mercedes, please tell meif you're afraid of following events:Scared to death and tell me if you runthe risk of dying?—I'm afraid of the death, but I neverhave been at risk of dying.—Are you afraid of the disease andtell me if you have a degenerativecondition?—Yes, I'm afraid of getting sick, butto date I have only infirmities of age.—What do you fear most?—I'm afraid of everything, as I saidyou Doctor, I'm very scared, but Istruggle to not be afraid.—Well, now I ask you to describe mewith accuracy. What is the fear? I thinkthat you live it so intensely that youmust know very well.—Mmm, good Doctor, fear is ...mmm….. Yes, I live intensely the fear,but to define it, mmm, I think, hmmm,I don’t know!Mª. del Socorro Candelaria Zarate (Mexico)Strictly a handshake 7Our life is but a battle and a stay in a foreignland.Marco AurelioFor a businessman like me, shakinghands is much more than a sign ofcourtesy. Advisors of dubious wisdomhave replaced the augurs of the past butventured with the same arbitrariness onthe future of a relationship by simplystudying the way people salute eachother. However, no test could be run onme. No matter what age or sex, thethought of touching another’s handbrings me into a state of morbidanxiety and uncontrollable terror. Andnot only is my soul disturbed: I am alsoassaulted by a cold sweat, hardbreathing, dizziness, and a sick andstrong tingling in the palms. Havingspent out the dirty hands excuse Iimmediately started to avoid any typeof social commitments. At first, Iblamed it on my inveterate laziness.When I moved my office to my homeand did not have to go out to workanymore there was no further need forevasions. Thus, my irrelevantpeculiarity turned more evident.Relatives acted in a condescendingmanner when dealing with their loonyuncle´s eccentricity. However, friends7 With the invaluable help of Violeta Baliánin translation.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 42

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticwere not as lenient and progressivelydeprived me of the pleasure of theircompany. I did not mind or perhaps Idid but I could not help myself. Aftermuch pleading, a pious niece draggedme through therapies and treatments.The most she got was a blurreddiagnosis of some phobia with anunpronounceable name and a preachingagainst parents who do not hug, kiss orcaress their children. A waste of timeand a rather useless admonition; I wasa child when myparents died in a caraccident. In fact, itwas at their burialthe last time Iremember shakinghands with anyonealongside the twoclosed caskets. Anold woman, dressedin black, and alsowearing a blackenedheadscarfapproached me to express hercondolences. She extended a gnarledhand, cold and rough and shook myarm with martial fervor. I'm quite sureof what she said that day. Mygrandparents denied the facts until theydied but I swear I’m telling the truth.The strange woman promised me thatthe next time we met we would walkhand in hand until we arrived to thehell that awaited me.Pablo Martínez Burkett (Argentina)NightmareYou want me to failBut you can’t have meWhen darkness fallsand creeps upon mea curse that lingersbut long agoI shed this nightmareto be forlornhalf awakeor half sleepMay I ask youwistful wraith....what do you longfor?ShadesAnd when I deny you...with spider fingerscast a spellyou appear before my eyes ...may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 43

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticdeceive me with your liesjumps over me to stain my soul!and drain my will to drink my tears...feast on my deepest fearsBut you can't steal it from this shrineYou can't take it cos it's mineYou're coming in disguisepretending to be a friendand though I don't believeYou still will come when all the lightsget dimYou want me to fail...But you can't have itYou're not real...! Go!When darkness falls ...And nightmare comesVanish into obliviongo and leave me alone!Go back where you belong!Go!I can’t move, I can’t shoutmy hands are tongue are tied withfrightWithout defense I cannot fightThe horrid things that come at nightBut I see your shadow crawlslike ink your cloak unfurlsa cloud of rags as black as coalLiar, Deceiver"I won't lie to you"Stay the night with me. Haunt me"Child, do not distrust me"I'm forsaken, forgotten"dream of me"remains of myself ...NightmarePriscilla Hernández (Spain)Stories of Mirrors:AlbaAlba was going slowly, for the way ofthe mirrors, her stopped the sleepy lightof the dusty frame.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 44

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThe myth of breaking the hours withher angular and pale hand wasreturning to take place in her spiritualphobia of dreaming of the anonymousterror that the prisons of the mysteryenclose.Again it was forming a part of theimplacable needles, which were turningfrantic, with and without recollections.It was difficult to her to understandthe language of the time, the parsimonyof the hours, the challenging accuracyof the numbers that were advancing assoldiers, becoming huge in perfectcircle, up to her wise over excited limitmaking a detour and to throw it ironic.She was provoking fear and madnessto walk for the paths of her questions,but she could not escape to thissensation of being unfolded to anotherside of the mirrors, allowing the imageto go out a few instants to occupy herplace and this way to be deepenedfearful behind the crystal.It was also, the emaciated suicide offacing her spirit, the reflex was anentity, before it could have been afleeting symbolism, but the associationof facts body like, turning into judge ofherself.What terrible for her was proving toobserve this so dear and known image,winding in the emptiness, the nabbedhands, drawing a smile with the samefacility that a cruel gesture, the lipsmoving obtuse, shouting insults orsaying words of love, and the missed,obscure and luminous look as a dualitymay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 45

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticso antagonistic and contradictory,almost impossible to imagine.She did not support any more thismovie, representing the secret of herspirit, she accepted the unfolding, butwas terrified now of herselfShe was so upset, that angereddecided to put end to this mercilessgame, began to be call her irascibleoneself, but it was not answering her,was the first time that it was refusing toreturn, driven to despair she struck thecrystal and warned that her I, for beingvery vulnerable, she ended forbreaking.It was too much late to return, her fitit had broken the mirror and caughtspirit, was agonizing between thefragmented edges, now the image,almost destroyed it was moaningbefore annihilated life, only it is thatwill never be able to be reflected andher destiny to be to stroll cardestructively as an absolute andsimulated deceive.Graciela Marta Alfonso (Argentina)FreefallHe came up the hill with difficultyand chest pounding. When told thatthey had to reach a cactus locatedmiddle, on the edge of a cliff, unable tosee his eyes in panic. Later realized thathe suffered from a fear of heights,when they saw him jump into the void.Sarko Medina (Peru)There John TheRearles−Heil Hitler! - Commander Heimlich,respected and feared man, came tooversee the anti-Phobos project, whichsought the perfect soldier.−Nice to see you sir. We are veryclose; Matthew has spent the basiclevels. Immune to the most commonfears: Entomofobia, glossofobia,hemophobia, necrophobia,ophidiofobia ... Not present anyabnormal reaction to food, everydayobjects, animals or sexual activity. Ithas stood the test of tapheofobia,finding the solution to escape. We nowturn to more hidden terrors, morerooted in the soul.Matthew remained in a test table. Hislimbs were attached with straps and ahelmet on his head virtual reality. Dr.Egmont handled the controls under theinquisitive gaze Heimlich. In thepatient's mind began to project all sortsof terrors: hell, deformed creatures,medieval torture, terminal illness,biblical plagues, the vastness of thecosmos, extreme weather ... but hisvital signs remained unchanged.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 46

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic−Stop, that's enough! This man is atrue Aryan, a specimen in which reststhe future of the Reich. My son, youare all a ubermensch.Cold sweat started perlar Matthew'sforehead, vomited and crouched on thefloor in a fetal position whilestammered: "No, no ubermensch".Heimlich angrily withdrew beforeanother failure and Dr. Egmont scoringa new phobia to its extensive list ofterrors, was before the first recordedinstance of Essedeuxfobia.Manuel Santamaría Barrios (Spain)VertigoShe invited me to the balcony. Thestars, imposed an overnight romanticbackground. He was dressed in lightclothing and her cheeks were pink. Shehad taken a lot of wine and call mewith their hands, sensual, like twosnakes to attack.I took a step, hopefully. I tookanother, excited. Then I observed thebalcony railing, endless city, and theabyss way down.I fled toward the door away in fear,before I devoured the precipice to theirhungry jaws.Ernesto Parrilla (Argentina)It´s just the thing!—These bugs make me sick. Sowarm, so soft and so annoying. Theydestroy everything in their path, theyspread like a plague and I cannot gomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 47

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticanywhere without being assaulted.Some of them even come to my house,and it´s so troublesome to get rid ofthem! How couldn´t I have this phobia?-he asked to her companion when shethreatened to leave him if he keptrunning away whenever they saw them.—Is it that your justification?Frankly, I expected more, maybe that agroup of such insignificant creaturesmanaged to hurt you. That wouldexplain better your stupid andridiculous cowardice.—For the last time, I'm not afraid, Ihave phobia.—You know what? I don't mind.We've finished. Let me know when youcure this "phobia" -turning awayarrogantly, she left the cave with herscaly tail wagging.Sure, what we needed, she thought. Adragon with human phobia, it´s just thething! As if you could not get rid ofhundreds of them at once with a littleblow nor we could destroy their citiesin minutes. With jerks like this in ourranks, no wonder why they respect usless every day.Déborah F. Muñoz (Spain)Labor complications—I am afraid of blood.—That will somehow affect theirdaily lives.—It affects my work.—Since when?—A few months ago just before I hadthis problem.—Do not tell me, you butcher.—No.−I will not say it's killer.−Something like that.—Ja, I want to tease.—No, I have planned to take his lifein a car accident next month, there willbe blood in pain for you, then, here'sthe deal, you help me with my phobiaand change the painful death by a quickor painless if not cure me, killed himwith a slow disease and even morepainful, tear it inside and I will preventhim bloodied, you decide and, ofcourse, turn that clock that measuresthe time of visit is making me nervousand can define once that things withyou, Doctor.Sarko Medina (Peru)—Why did you come to theconsultation?.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 48

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticCinderella coveredmy mouth 8She said. She put her glasses back on,with that weary gesture, like I do. Shetied her white hair up in a tight bun,and went back to watch the Spanishfilms on the telly, those with thefamous singers.‘Mum’, I said. But shedidn’t answer. Lola Flores was singingfor her now. My eyes were wet. Icouldn’t move. Twenty years going topsychotherapy and she summarisedthem all in a few words. Her own. Herbitter revelation had left me defenselessand at the same time so lucid. Even so,I looked at the clock as I always do,constantly. Half past eleven. I startedshaking, gasping for air. Every day thesame suffocating procession, whichhighest and most painful peak was toreach at twelve o’clock. Terror crept in,invading me. I felt like fleeing,knowing that wherever I went,anywhere in Buenos Aires, the fear andthen the panic will follow me. My heartunbridled. But today, now, finally, thisis no longer a phobia, but a memory.Unblocked. Lethal. The memory of myfather covering my mouth, entering me,after having read to me, as always,Cinderella.Majo López Tavani (Argentina)8 Translation by María Elisa Pelletta.You will never befreeAnd she was so near that she couldalmost smell the freedom of crossingthe threshold. After five years lockedup in this odious and hateful prison itwas hard to believe that the exit was sonear. But there was something wrong.It wasn't the prison, the prison namedSt. Peter Asylum, nor was the great fireinside that was little by little destroyingthe whole place. It wasn't either that theoxygen was scarce and stale. Theproblem was that horrible object ofdoom, the main character in all hernightmares since she could remember,that infernal, hellish and abominablecreature that was in the left side of thedoor, the hairy, eight-legged creaturewith thousand of evil eyes and swollenabdomen. A terrible spider staring ather with blacks and bottomless eyes,with eyes full of disgusting lust,disgusting hunger. She perfectly knewwhat the creature was thinking, yes, itwas waiting her to pass near the door tobite her with its poisonous fangs and tomake her feel its horrendous hairy longblack legs in her skin.Whenever she started to think in it herheart rushed anomaly flushing herblood all along her body, making hersweat from all the corners of heranatomy, soaking all her clothes, skinand hair. Suddenly a scream explodemay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 49

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticinside of her, a scream that echoed inall the asylum and all her soul, ascream that was conflated with achildish sobbing, making the mostshameful noise ever heard in the place.But Sarah also knew that this time shemust win the battle of her fears, it washer life what was in play this time, andmaybe the spider was dead, becauseeverything with life in the place hadrun away. It must be dead... but maybeit was a trap, a dirty trap... She couldn'tstop looking at that dreadful and nastybody, she couldn't stop looking at itand she couldn't stop crying... andcrying again.Perhaps... perhaps the fire wasn't asbad as it appeared, maybe it was a key,the key of freedom, the wantedfreedom she was looking for...Juan Pachón Ulierte (Spain)AlarmedOnce again “The dream frightener”gave the accustumed ring to only wakeup some parts of my body. -Damnalarm! - whispered a voice similar tomine which ranted holding to thepillow. My mind, stuck in the protest,tried vainly to appease a phobia thatwould make my mornings become amartydrom, and I told myself:“Interrupting sleep in an artificial wayshould be considered a violation tohuman rights”…”Maybe, allhumankind’s problems woulddisappear if we forbade the pungentawaking this thing produces”… Butthat’s the way it goes, we are the onlyanimal on earth who has this tortuoushabit.Considering the time that passedbetween the abrupt shriek of the alarmand the ramshackle movements that mybody invented to turn it off, I alwayslost the necessary minutes to have acalmed and relaxed breakfast. Thedelay on which I lived had alreadyembedded me becoming a costume,until that fateful day arrived.Here and there gossipers say I’m dead... and here I am now, waiting in limbo,alarm free, but viscerally alarmed bythe possible veredict… For I’ve beentold that hell is the eternal repetition ofthe most hated thing. And I know thathe will ring forever… repeating, everyten exact minutes.Lucila Adela Guzmán (Argentina)Tick TockWhen I woke up today, somethinghad broken on the world.Tick tock.The thorns infested bed sheet started,ruthless, scratching my skin. Tick tock.Awakening, the sun has speared myeyes trough the open window. Tickmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 50

The Magazine of the brief & fantastictock. After closing it, the frowningwalls have attempted to hang over me,when they thought i wasn’t looking.Tick tock. Tick tock. That damned ticktock. The clock insults me. It teasesme. Tick tock. I feel its malevolentpresence. It drives me crazy. Tick tock.It wants to finish me off. Tick tock. Ifuriously pounce on it. I crash it againstthe floor, smashing time and time againuntil it hushes. I’m yelling, tears arerunning trought my cheeks and myhands are copiously bleeding, buteverything’s back to normality.“Is there something wrong?”, i realizesomeone’s speaking behind me. “I’veheard you screaming and i’ve comein...”. I turn back. He’s there, full ofarrogance, watching me. Twisting hismouth in a scathing smile. I carefullylisten his puffed chest.Thump thump..Pedro López Manzano (Spain)Martian MeatIndustries Ltd. Corp. 9Exactly seventeen minutes remainedof his first working day, just a bit morethan a quarter of an hour to overcomehis deepest fears. He looked nervous,and there was good reason. There he9 Translation Andrés, Nina y Ángelawas, dressed in bright grey overalls,waiting to begin the shift along with hisnew companions, all of them dressedexactly like him, and with several yearsof experience behind them. He waswaiting nervously in the wide lobby ofthe slaughterhouse of the unique meatcompany in Mars. The owner, a richman in his fifties, was the thirdhusband of her mother. He hadobtained this employment for him witha brief video-call to the humanresources director.―I do not want any scroungersaround me ―his stepfather had beenintransigent since he received thenotification of him failing hisuniversity admission exam―. One ofmy employees has just retired and Ineed to replace him with someone Itrust as soon as possible. We areflooded with work, we just can't cope.Tomorrow is your first day.Since he didn´t have a degree, theother option he had was to beemployed in the Phobos's mines, andit’s commonly known that seventy-percentof miners who work on theSatellite die in less than ten years.Manipulate those disgusting giantslugs, the only edible native species onthe planet, eleven hours a day, itcouldn't be worse than not reaching hisearly thirties, as much as the disgustthose damned bugs gave him. Just theimage in his mind of himself touchingmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 51

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticthem, if only to tear them apart usinggloves and a knife, made his hair standon end. At least now he couldunderstand how those nasty molluscscould end up looking like the deliciouspig-flavoured synthetic meat.His new companions laughed at himfor fifteen minutes after his publicconfession of his phobia of slugs.Fifteen minutes immersed in absoluteignorance, until he finally went into theslaughterhouse and saw everything. Hefainted. There was absolutely no bugsthere. There were only hundreds ofhuman corpses wrapped in plasticbrought from several mines andprisons, ready for handling. All naturalfood.Rubén Ibáñez González (Spain)Lives in meMy fear. The fight, flight and theavoidance of pain, so check constantmy bedroom every night.Everything that comes to my senses,control my emotions and panicaddresses in each hint me to sleep.Panic is installed on my body andpain and terror pervades.Diviso magic unreal dangers facinghours of despair, the clock is tickingbut I continue to life imprisonment.Excuses get to delay his arrival, not tobelieve stories lie down on the bedtortuous realities transports me toinhumane and undesirable that plaguethe evening.Was paralyzed when bedtime comesand you cannot, I do not sleep.The sense of sleep makes mevulnerable and mistrust.I pressed, altering my perception ofthings, a harsh reality.My refusal to sleep is such that leadsme to tensions and anxieties mixed asthey advance the hours.I feed my fear is phobia, I cannothide, I must be strong.My doubts to sleep, when it's just anessential part of life.It is only a door to something better,something perfect, and for me is histrap: a disguise for something sopowerfully bad it scares me. I try toescape it, when she lives within me.What is escaped and again.So his role is testing me every night,to see if, despite of "betraying" perfectdeserve what she can give.I see it as an enemyI escape from something even chasingme, so lonely, living in me.Texy Cruz –SEUD.- (Spain)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 52

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThe Z civilization:Reptanophobia 10I open the door.Two scandalous fingers unlock thefastener. I slightly shut my eyes, tryingto disimulate my panic from thoseskinny fingers that desire to feel myface and neck. They’re just two filthyfingers with dark nails.Since the dawn of humanity we’vesuffered so many phobias that ourculture has selfdestruct. They pretendto cure them all in a laboratory. Theblonde haired one, in the cubicchamber number 2, fears spiders, themethod is none other than to swarm hishead with and endless number of thesecreatures and allow them to creepinside his mind. That other fatgentleman can’t bear the sight ofsweets, he screams, cries and suffersshakes; next to me, inside chambernumber 3, the old toothless man tries toput out a cigarette bud and it keepsburning endlessly. They say that ourfears disappear when we enhance them.My parents sent me to this school sothat I don’t forget that there is noshame in allowing me to be touched. Istill terribly fear hugs, caresses andkisses. I can’t stop watching themmove towards me, closing in, draping10 Translation Guillermo Smith Ramosdown my skin, slipping all over it... bitsof human body parts, that once weremine.Raquel Sequeiro (Spain)SelacofobiaHe is nice but weird, think Sara tofinish, with success, another long(would the twenty fifth? do the thirty?)What cares) in the swimming pool ofthe hotel. They are the first holidaysthat go together. Already classicoptions of beach or mountain, Sarachose the first because he loves toswim. What Enrique does not share atall. Meanwhile, she is poolside,slipping into the water, and again,Enrique remains lying on the towel,pulling blades of grass while reading abook of Game of Thrones (the third?fifth? which cares). When Sara askedby this strange aversion to get wet, hereplied that was no afraid but feelsabsolute terror to what could beswimming in the background, awayfrom the light, things with teeth likeknives, facts to tear meat. Even in thepool?, asked Sara. Even there. Thatsaid, decided to Sara, nice but rare.Apart from that, it's a great guy, oftruth. Gentlemanly, fun, witty and witha beautiful smile. A charm, go. I guessI can live with this hobby, Sara sighed.That night, Sarah dreams of darkwaters and shadows swimming fastbetween her legs, rubbing it with itsmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 53

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticcold flakes, starting with delight thesoft skin of her thighs. She wakes updizzy, with a flavor in the mouth, as ifshe had swallowed salt water. The nextmorning, Sara remains lying next toEnrique, under a merciless sun. Youwould today not you get in the water?,asks him. I don't want much. Half anhour later, has come to the conclusionthat she is being a bit silly. It is only adream, nothing more. So she began toswim. The splash is like a soundtrackof environment together with themurmur of the wind among the Palmtrees and the desperate cries of thebirds. For this reason, Enrique does notnotice that already not heard Sarahuntil they spend several minutes.Approaching the pool carefully until itis almost at the edge that it anticipatesthe terrible blue and looks into theabyss. Fast shadows are stirred in thedark, still hungry. Tree leaf falls intothe water and stays floating as ifnothing more matter.David Calvo Sanz (España)The patchI've never been a good boy, I knowthat. My life is like a puzzle; sin andvice are part of it, but empathy andcharity are not. I remember Michael,that little boy I used to hit at school,whose pale skin always rolled over inmud, adorned in bruises and wounds.His left eye, lost in the shadows ofinnocence, used to sleep under a patch.It didn't work well, so the right one hadto look around, every second, in theplayground, every day, waiting for meto appear.Now, Michael is not wearing a patchanymore. His right eye, deep set in themauve pale skin, rests next to the leftone, that lies under a pallid and thincover. Shreds of black hair fall over hismuddy forehead. He looks reallyfunny.That day he saw me aproaching inslow motion, like in a film. Under thesweltering May sun, his face wascovered in sweat. I punched him down,and he fell in the ground, hitting hisnape against a steel toboggan. Iapologized,and promised him Iwouldn't do it again.I'm not a good boy, but I always keepmy promises.I would like to introduce Michael toyou, but I can't. Now, his sad lonelyeyes can be only seen through mysoulless look.Rocío Rubio Bores (España)ImageFew that have never seen their image,maybe I'm the only one.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 54

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticCurious mine phobia, fear see myselfin a mirror and I can only see a pictureof me, there is no explanation of thisfear so strange, lost hope long ago,never be able to see my image.−John listen you must overcome yourfears and look in the mirror, believe meyou will not regret, my brother insistedday after day to try that I dared to lookin the mirror.It is useless José I cannot just getclose without having a panic attack.−Make an effort, when you see yourimage you will understand everything.Joseph said no more and left theroom, his last words left me veryintrigued, that was what understands tosee myself in the mirror, to God secretkept my image.−I do, I told myself and I did look inthe mirror.−Now I understand all −in a strangemirror image is reflected, for nothingseemed to my brother, my face was thatof a human, a species that for decadeshad been exterminated by the race Ithought to belong.Diego Galán Ruiz (España)No prospectThe three men are standing in a cornerof the alley, sheltered from the sun andprying eyes. Man wearing hat is thebuyer. The right´s guy is the seller, andhe extends over the car hood thesample with merchandise featuring thenew customer. The seller´s friend isbehind him and he looks a suspicioustype. The buyer indicates a capsulewhich stands out for its red color.−Claustrophobia –tells the seller.−Well! –the buyer backs-. I don´tneed that.−I have aero, acro, bronto, dento,misophobia –the seller mentions otheroptions.−You don´t understand me –thecustomer shakes his head-. I want theopposite effect to the red one.−I understand you! –the sellerbrowses over the pile of pills-. This iswhat you need. Agoraphobia. Thiscapsule came out a month ago and isvery acceptable –the guy teaches thebuyer a blue and gray capsule-. Pick itup, if you want.The client holds the capsule betweenhis fingers and shakes it, as if it couldcome any sound. He asks for the price.Two thousand is a lot. The sellerinsists. This is really effective. Onedose is enough to create the desiredeffect. The client nods his head andstays with it.−And, remember, you can swallow itwhole or open it and mix it with themay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 55

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticfood or drink of your choice –adds theseller.−Well, is not really for me, it´s mywife´s gift. She´s stressed out. Sheneeds to take life more calmly, withoutas much going and coming. You knowwhat I mean.Close the deal, the men say goodbyewith a handshake. The suspicious manis worried. They not have told himabout the sequels.−Oh! –the seller replies-. That hiswife developed symptoms hedonohetero-hominophobia,and gamo-genogymnophobiaand, if not ready, heeventually walks out on the street, notknowing where to go? He will find outfor himself, as did the other.−I don´t Know what this summerhappens, my friend –the suspiciousshrugs-. Or is there an epidemic ofjealous husbands, or is this heat thatscorches them the brain.María José Gil Benedicto (Spain)Stink bugs!The foulest thing in the world, in aworld full of foul things, even thoughthey were only about the size of thefingernail on her thumb, were thegoddamned stink bugs that invaded thehouse every day. They slinked throughthe cracks in the wood, through thewindow sills. For a tiny fifteen yearold girl with nothing in her head butcalculus and musicals, they wereinsufferable.The sight of them, coupling incorners, crawling on the ceiling,buzzing around light bulbs, caused herto scream and run away like a gothicnovel lunatic. They were the thing thatmade her break into sudden sweats inthe middle of the night, the thing thatfilled the nightmares she could neverremember in the morning, when herdark dreams became like a fog thatdissipated with the coming of the lightof day. But there was a real reasonwhy she remained so deathly afraid:Under her adolescent’s bed, under thecarpet, under the floorboards, therebrewed a horde of stink bugs that creptinto the room some nights. One, inparticular, had grown to be the size ofher hand. Some nights, it wouldrelease into the air a sampling of itsfetid, mind-altering poison. That, andthe tickling she felt as it climbed intoher bed and nestled in her chest, wouldmake her wake up in a daze, her larynxinflamed, and, unable to breathe right,the insect staring at her, she would faintback into ever darker dreams...Tony Báez Milán (Puerto Rico)LigophobiaMalena was thirteen. She was anormal girl, she had been subjected to amay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 56

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticnumber of treatments. For some years,his parents decided to leave her as shewas, her big fear of the dark could beeasily controlled. She just had to followcertain rules: no pass through darkplaces, avoid dark corners and be at alltimes (even sleeping) with the lightson. She entered adolescence, did nottell anyone about his strange situation.Her parents told her that the parents ofthese and some great-grandparents hadsuffered from that phobia, but withoutmajor complications. "All we are afraidof something, the important thing is toface our fears and defeat them," hismother had told her. One night, Malenastayed late on the first floor of hishome doing school work. His parentswarned her lie down maximum at 12a.m. and they went to sleep. When shewas working at the computer, thepower went out. The girl crieddesperately. His parents were jumpedup and went downstairs to help her.The electricity came back suddenly.Apparently, it had been a momentaryfailure. Malena was terrified. "It haveembraced me, it stinking horrible", shesaid between sobs. His parents decidedto take her that same day to a specialist.She was very distraught, loudly shewondered what was happening, whathad been. The doctor who attended herwas one of the best professionals in thecountry, he used a novel method tocure phobias, proposed it to the parentsand they agreed. They just had to takeher home, lower light switch, leavingher alone in the house and lock. Thegirl would realize that in the darknessthere was nothing wrong and heal. Theparents did while Malena was sleeping.When they was securing the doors, feltvery guilty, but hopeful. The girl wokeup in the darkness, he could seenothing. She felt good, undressed andwalked down the dirt floor. He felt aslight shame for their parents, becauseshe would not see them again. She feltthe steps, the breaths, the grunts. Whenit passed the tongue by her body, shefelt a great pleasure. And she let it dragher into the hole.Carlos Enrique Saldivar (Peru)Don’t switch off thelightLittle Pedro simply asks for the lightnot to be switched off when he goes tobed, he refuses to give any explanation.His parents have tried everything,entrusting him with the guardian angel,making fun of him telling he is alreadya big boy, threatening, psychotherapy.Nothing works. The psychologist doesnot believe in a trauma. Apart from thisdetail, Pedro seems very calm andhappy. The psychologist advises theworried parents to wait; surely it willpass when he gets older.Little Pedro only sighs and asksfor the light not to be switched offmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 57

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticwithout telling why. His parents wouldnot understand. He is not afraid ofanything. It is that stupid hairy monsterwho hides under the bed that is afraidof darkness. If they turn off the lights,it gets with one jump under the blanketof poor Pedro. And who wants to sleepwith a trembling and weeping monster?Street AbyLanguage ever identicgymnastic apparatus.see the open skyand believethe silence of triangle.see it wherewrite the full moon.life so unmotivat;solt and cageunder sky chiselstudd with the angeland world.Tanya Tynjälä (Peru)Amancio De Lier (Mexico)The number 11Some years ago, on a flight toCalifornia I met Larry Wilkins, thefamous numerology expert. Weexchanged business cards. “I see youwork in finances,” he said. “That´sright. But please, tell about yourexpertise, Larry,” I insisted. “Let metell you, in my opinion numbers areimportant but also dangerous,” he said.And after analizing the date of my birthhe gave me the notion that the rest ofmy life depended on the number 9 or acombination of digits that would add orbe reduced to 9. “Avoid it and becareful that you don´t find it in flightnumbers, trains, TV channels, bankaccounts, hotel rooms, etc.” I told mywife. “Rubbish,” she said. “9 is ahumanitarian, spiritual number.”Nevertheless, I absorbed apreoccupation which filled me withserious side effects: anxiety, sweating,palpitations and migraines. On the 9s,18s and 27s of each month I would notgo out of the house. I worked at home.And I forbade any type of celebrationconnected with 9. I wore socks size 10.My family suspected and rightly so, aserious phobia. So I consulted with apsychologist. Nothing. And so, for thenext 9 years I remembered the nowdead Larry´s ominous words: “Mindthe 9 or you will not live to tell the11 Translation: N. Beredjiklianmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 58

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticstory.” Until that one day when thecompany asked me to attend a meetingin another city. I traveled there thenight before and early in the morning Iwent to the assigned building to meetmy clients on the 51st floor. Theelevator man announced an “express to45”. Terrified, I begged him to let meout. “It is impossible, sir, the trip isprogrammed, electronically.” “Please,this is an emergency!” I yelled, besidemyself. “I will make both you and thebuilding responsible,” I threatened.The man worked a few buttons and theelevator door opened. I went down tothe street and checked my mobilephone. It showed New York 9:00hours Tuesday 11 September 2001.And at that precise moment there was ahuge explosion. Behind me. I turnedand saw the building I had just leftcoming down in a cloud of dust.Raving mad, I ran several blocks in theopposite direction. Exhausted, I wentinto a bar and ordered a drink. “Elevendollars, sir.“ I gave the waiter a 20and got 9 in change. “Keep it,please,” I told him as I left.Violeta Balián (Argentina)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 59

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The Magazine of the brief & fantasticRevista:Revista: KoradPaís: Cuba (enero-marzo, 2012 #12)Editor: Raúl AguiarCo-Editores: Elaine Vilar Madruga,Jeffrey López y Carlos A. DuarteCorrección: Zullín Elejalde Macías yVictoria Isabel Pérez Plana, OlimpiaChong Carrillo y Sunay RodríguezAndradeColaboradores: Claudio delCastillo, Daína Chaviano,Rinaldo Acosta, YossDiseño y composición: RaúlAguiarSección Poesía: Elaine VilarMadrugaIlustración de portada: RayRespallIlustración de contraportada:Vladimir (QVAN comics)Ilustraciones de interior: Ray Respall,Raúl Aguiar, Stefano Valente, Mario C.CarperProyecto Editorial sin fines de lucro,patrocinado por el Taller de Fantasía y CFEspacio Abierto y el Centro deFormación Literaria Onelio JorgeCardosoRedacción y Administración: Centro deFormación Literaria Onelio JorgeCardoso. 5ta. ave, No. 2002, entre 20 y22, Playa, Ciudad Habana, Cuba. CP11300 Telef: 206 53 66e-mail: revistakorad@yahoo.comÍndice:Editorial/3Ha muerto Ángel Arango. DaínaChaviano / 4Angel Arango, pionero de la cienciaficción en Cuba. Roger Salas / 5Columna bífida (fragmento) ÁngelArango / 6Once años después. Crónicadel Villaficción 2013. Yoss /10Langosta pálida. VladimirHernández Pacín / 17Dioses como hombres. Laciencia ficción soviética y el youtópico. Elana Gomel/ 22El zombi de su infancia TomCrosshill/ 36Sección Poesía Fantástica:Herederos de la culpa. Inercia. Uncuadro llama mi atención. Lisandra Navas/ 38Sección Plástika Fantástika: Ray Respall/39Santé. Michel Encinosa Fu /41Sección Humor: Pollitos en el espacio.Marié Rojas Tamayo / 49Treinta días de worldbuilding. StephanieCottrell Bryant / 51may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 61

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticReseñas: Cosmonautas,astronautas, cibernautas...¿Condonautas? / 65Concursos: Ficción yCiencia/Micromegas/Cesta de palabras / 66…Revista: Akiba-TanRevista Digital de Anime,Manga y Cultura otakuPaís: Cuba (Santa Clara,marzo- abril #4, 2013)Staff:Editor: FiroKun (AlvaroGarcía)Difusión: Santiago (Santiago Cabrera),Tanuki (Sigrid Victoria)Redactores: Naru (Yanet Fernández),Otamega (Dayron Díaz)Ilustrador: ddLuffy (Jesús Vázquez)Índice:1/ Portada3/ Editorial4/ Índice6/ Demuestra cuán otakueres9/ Preview - Dragon Ball12/ Noticias14/ Preview de estrenos –Temporada de Primavera201318/ Cowa! Los fantasmas nomienten21/ Anime Gyokai –Toriyama-sensei, maestrode maestros23/ Akira Yamada.Conferencia sobre mangaen la Universidad de LaHabana25/ Tsunami Todoketai -Segundo Aniversario27/ One Shot: BountyHunter30/ FanArt35/ Normas Editoriales34/ En próximasedicionesWeb:http://akibatan.ucoz.com/news/akiba_tan_no_4_marzo_abril_2013/2013-04-07-6Revista: Akiba-tan Revista Digital deAnime, Manga y Cultura otakuPaís: Cuba (Santa Clara, abril-mayo #5,2013)Staff:...Editor – FiroKun (AlvaroGarcía)Difusión – Santiago(Santiago Cabrera), Tanuki(Sigrid Victoria)Redactores – Yoruichi(Laura Rodríguez), Ryuk(Alain Rodríguez)Ilustrador – ddLuffy (JesúsVázquez)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 62

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticÍndice:1. Portada3. Editorial4. Índice5. Akiba-tan en la web7. Animemanía10. Colaboración – Entrevista TsuneoSanda12. Noticias16. Anime Gyokai – El estilo propio deun anime18. Bello u Original21. FanArt25. En próximas ediciones26. Normas Editoriales27. Información adicionalhttp://akibatan.hol.es/2013/05/akiba-tanno-5-abril-mayo-2013-2/…Revista: PlanetasProhibidosPaís: EspañaÍndice3/EDITORIAL, por Jorge VilchesARTÍCULOS5/ El Hobbit, La Película, J. Javier ArnauEl Hobbit, El Libro, Jorge Vilches10/ Stardust Y El Sentido De LaMaravilla, Pedro López Manzano14/ La Vocación Auténtica De LaFantasía, Carlos SuchowolskiEntrevistas:19/ Alexis Brito Delgado, por J. JavierArnau22 /Alfonso Zamora Llorente, por J.Javier ArnauRelatos:25/ Expreso Habana-Amstelven, Yoss yÁngel García Alcaraz.49/ Bienvenida, Hermana, Laura LópezAlfranca y Abel Portillo53/ El Secreto De Los Roberts, CarlosPaez y Anabel Zaragozí61/ Grotesco, CarlosDaminsky62/ Guardián Y Prisionero,José Andrés Alonso de laFuente y Juan Raffo70/ Los Muertos Se AlzanEn Neptuno, GabrielRomero y Pablo Uría80/ El AlucinanteEncuentro Entre RomanPolansky Y Philip K. Dick,Jorge Zarco Rodríguez yDavid Velázquez84/ Reliquias Mágicas, Carlos Pérez Jaray Abel Portillo97/ claro, Pablo Planet y J. A. MarchánCómic:102/ Ondas Fraguianas, por Fraga103/ Mundo Robot, por DavidBraña,Pedro Belushi, Juan Alarcón, EnricNolla y Rodolfo Valenzuela.Poesía:may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 63

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic105/ Star Wars Soneto,por Jorge ZarcoRodríguez106/ por CarlosSuchowolski107/ Novedadeseditoriales ycinematográficashttp://planetasprohibidos.blogspot.com/2013/05/planetas-prohibidos-6.html…Revista: FuturoscopiasStaff:Edición y maquetación: Ricardo GarcíaHernanz.Corrección y ayudante del editor: MaríaRequena Castañol.Ilustraciones por Marcos Hidalgo yRicardo García Hernanz.Portada y contraportada por RicardoGarcía Hernanz.Diseño de la página web porinfo@rojo2.comContacto:correo@futuroscopias.comhttp://www.futuroscopias.comÍndice:EDITORIAL/ 4Taddhaeus/ Mauro Hinojosa/6Visiones/ 23Revista: PenumbriaPaís: MéxicoPensando a la fuerza/Antonio Morera.Veterano de las guerraspsíquicas/ MauroHinojosa.Nivel seis/ JuanchoCarrillo.Walden III/ AntonioMorera/ 38Prisma: Rutas/ JuanchoCarrillo/ 60Retazos de un futuroincierto/ Ricardo GarcíaHernanz/ 90…Portada: CruzMa LeminsideDirección, Diseño y Edición: MiguelAntonio Lupián SotoSelección:Ana Paula Rumualdo FloresAdrián “Pok” ManeroManuel Barroso ChávezMiguel Antonio Lupián SotoPenumbria, revista fantásticapara leer en el ocaso es undragón de dos cabezas. Laprimera está conformada porun blog, donde encontrarásartículos, reseñas de libros,películas y exposiciones,notas, cortometrajes...relacionados con lo fantástico.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 64

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticLa otra incluye las antologías de cuentobreve fantástico que convocamos mes conmes. El concepto, la distribución y elespíritu de la revista son un pequeñotributo al mejor escritor fantástico denuestro país: Emiliano González.http://www.penumbria.netÍndice:Torre de Johan Rudisbroeck / editorial/ 5Tienda de antigüedades del perversoMefisto / cuentosCaza de shoggoths, colección grotesca /Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas/ 7Nejapa / Miguel Lupián/ 9La última función / ArletteLuévano/ 11La caja del sexo y el últimocigarrillo/ Néstor Robles/ 12El jardín / DianaBeláustegui/ 13Ofrenda / Enrique Urbina/15La madurez / Alejandra Elena GámezPándura/ 18El cuervo / Enrique Layna/ 20#Microhorror VII / Ana PaulaRumualdo/ 23La boca del sapo / Mariano F. Wlathe/23Muñeca de trapo / Karla Sánchez/ 25Relato de “la calabaza andante” / AlbertoBellido/ 27Retrato de una noche / Laura Tellagorry/28Armonía ritual / Adrián “Pok” Manero/31La lluvia eterna / Víctor Rosablanca/ 33AUTÓMATAS / colaboradores/ 36Revista: Penumbria…País: México (mayo #10, 2013)Dirección, Diseño y Edición: MiguelAntonio Lupián Soto16Índice:Torre de Johan Rudisbroeck/ editorial/ 5Tienda de Antigüedades DelPerverso Mefisto / cuentosRomper / Iliana Vargas/ 7Un montón de tierra / AlexisUqbar/ 9Autorretrato / GabrielaDamián/ 12La libreta/ Miguel Lupián/El rostro ajeno / Daniela Ruedz/ 18¿Dónde quedó la vida? / Andrés Galindo/19Deshabitado / María Vargas/ 20Atrapada / Adrián “Pok” Manero/ 22#Microhorror VIII / Ana PaulaRumualdo/ 24La batalla de Stalingrado / Pedro PabloJuárez/ 24Posesión / Alberto Sánchez/ 27may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 65

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticEl señor cara de papa /Brenda Navarro/ 28A mis soledades voy /Bernardo Monroy/ 30Los ángeles no vuelan /Erath Juárez/ 34El caballito de bronce / Ma.del Carmen Manetti/ 36La caída del cielo (1) /Manuel Barroso/ 37Penumbra / OmarTiscareño/ 39AUTÓMATAS /colaboradores/ 40Cuentos:Título: HeladoscibernéticosAutor: Antonio Mora VélezEditorial: Caza de LibrosSinopsis: Heladoscibernéticos es un libro decuentos fantásticos y deciencia-ficción del escritorcolombiano Antonio MoraVélez, editado por Caza de Libros deIbagué, Colombia y lanzado enla pasada Feria Internacional delLibro de Bogotá. De los 17cuentos incluidos por el autorcuatro son inéditos, los demás,aunque no figuran en sus librosanteriores editados, han sidopublicados en revistas impresasy electrónicas del país y delexterior. Las joyas de laselección son Ejerciciosfílmicos, cuento incluido en laantología de la ciencia-ficciónlatinoamericana hecha porSylvia Miller y publicada enParís en 2008. La entrevista,considerada por el críticoCampo Ricardo Burgos comouna de las ucronías dignas de sermencionadas en el balance de laliteratura fantástica nacional;Yusti, un cuento en el que loshombres somos relegados en elplano de los sentimientos porunos seres tiernos einteligentes que se conviertenen nuestra concienciahistórica.…Título: EfímeraAutor: Miguel AntonioLupián SotoEditorial: SamsaraEfímera reúne alrededor detreinta y cinco cuentosbreves, minificciones ymicrocuentos, todospertenecientes a la literatura fantástica ode la imaginación.Novelas:Título: Dead, And Must TravelAutor: Tony Báez MilánPuerto Rican writer-directorTony Báez Milán has justreleased his new novel inEnglish, DEAD, AND MUSTTRAVEL, for the electronicmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 66

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticmarket. The book isabout a man who hailsfrom the island ofPuerto Rico but whowants nothing to dowith his country. Whenhe is buried in the cityof Pittsburgh, he returnsfrom the grave as azombie. Báez Milán isalso the author of thesuspense novel inSpanish EL BUENO YEL MALO, amongother books. One of hisfilms is the feature RAYBRADBURY’SCHRYSALIS, based ona short story by the legendary Americanauthor, who was his mentor.About DEAD, AND MUST TRAVEL,Báez Milán explains that it is a livelybook, with suspense and adventure and alot of humor. “It’s an entertaining noveland I think it’s an easy read, even if thereader might not know a lot of English,”says the author. “The main character,Estrago Smith, does not want to be PuertoRican, dislikes the fact. He comes back tothe world after dying, wondering why hehas returned. Of course there is a reason.This zombie has to think about things,which is unusual in zombies, but these arethings which are relevant to our identity.”It is a great time for zombies, which aretaking over everything. WORLD WAR Z,the movie based on the book by MaxBrooks and starring Brad Pitt, is about tobe released. Báez Milán recentlyparticipated in aninterview about thesubject for Box OfficeMagazine. “With thenew film WORLDWAR Z as reference,it’s an article about thecurrent popularity ofzombies, about thereasons why they areaccepted now more thanever. As for me,zombies have been onmy trail sincechildhood,” says BáezMilán.DEAD, AND MUSTTRAVEL is availableon Kindle through Amazon.com, thelargest medium for electronic books.Direct link to the book:http://www.amazon.com/DEAD-AND-MUST-TRAVELebook/dp/B00CHVWQPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367181346&sr=8-1&keywords=dead+and+must+travelFor more information about the authorand his literary and film works, visitwww.tonybaezmilan.com…Título: Las puertas del cieloAutor: Vladimir HernándezSinopsis: Una historia sobre el contactoentre civilizaciones,Sobre la lealtad y las experiencias inextremismay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 67

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic2029. Ángela Butler era una chica confuturo en el campo de la informáticaQUAI, una brillante programadora quetrabajaba en la sinergia entre ordenadorescuánticos y redes inteligentes; peroentonces comenzó a sufrir episodiosmentales que afectaron su rendimiento ysus nervios, y su trabajo se fue al traste.Ahora Ángela es una buscavidas de losmárgenes, una desarraigada que se haalejado de su familia como forma derefugiarse del pasado. Lo que menos deseaen el mundo es verse implicada otra vezen eventos de generación QUAI, ysobrevive haciendo chapuzas dedecodificación ilegal para un pequeñoequipo de tecno anarquistas que seautodenomina "El Club de los PoetasMuertos".Pero el paradigma de la computacióncuántica proyecta unasombra muy larga queconsigue atraparla, demodo que Ángela, a supesar, se ve obligada acolaborar con elProyecto Antrópico,acción liderada por ungrupo de científicoseuropeos con unacuriosa interpretacióndel Principio de Fermi.La misión esambiciosa; implicamanipular la tramacuántica del universo,abrir una puerta en elcielo, sin sospecharque habita más allá del umbral.…Título: Sueños de interfazAutor: Vladimir HernándezVlad hernandez es uno de los autoresmás premiados de la ciencia ficciónhispanoamericana. Sueños de interfazreúne siete historias galardonadasSinopsis: En un arco de asombrososfuturos cercanos y lejanos…Experimenta el estallido de laHIPERNOVA en un mundo de redespobladas de infoversos y entidades postsingularidadque luchan para trascender alcontrol de naciones y faccionescorporativas. El cisma transhumano está apunto de acontecer.En 2059 Conglomerado Habana es unamegaciudad dominada por enclavesneotech. Roy y Anna,de vacaciones en el surde CH, tropiezan condos chicas fugitivas.Se trata de doscobayas delaboratorio, dosartefactos decarneware conimplantes especiales yel poder dedesencadenarSUEÑOS DEINTERFAZ.En El ORÁCULODE PENROSE lacivilización humanaha sido confinada almay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 68

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticSistema Solar Interior y convertida porotra especie en raza-cliente de bajonivel… Procedente de un núcleo deresistencia en el Anillo Espartano, unhéroe venido a menos tendrá la difícilmisión de cambiar las tornas.Un grupo de aventureros pretenderealizar el Golpe del Milenio: asaltar uncomplejo de investigación militar y robarsu más preciada posesión: laEMPERATRIZ, reinamadrede una especiealienígena que librauna guerra contra laFederación Humana.La guerrainterespecies comoperversión delcontacto entrecivilizaciones.Aniquilación osupervivencia, labatalla final ocurriráen el mundoAldebarán V. EnSIGNOS DEGUERRA maniobrapara no sucumbir alshock de unaconfrontación bélica cargada de otredad.…Título: Crónicas NanotechAutor: Vladimir HernándezSinopsis: Alech era un colono del AnilloEspartano cuando comprendió que laindustria nanotech cambiaría todos losparadigmas de la civilización humana.Acompáñalo en CRÓNICASNANOTECH por un viaje relámpago através de su vida y descubre un futuro detransformaciones.En el siglo XXI, la empresa Timeless hacomercializado el viaje a universosparalelos en épocas remotas. Laprestigiosa cadena global NetPalaceorganiza un reality-show consuperestrellas del hip-hop que van desafari al período Cretácico. EnKRETACIC RAP,caza mayor, aventuray polémica estánservidas en bandejamediática.¿Hasta qué extremospuede llegar lavenganza de unapersona con el corazónroto? En un mundo detecnologías peligrosas,la NÉMESIS podríaestar a punto dedesencadenarse.En FRAGMENTOSDE UNA FÁBULA unviajero del SistemaSolar tiene unaccidente en elespacio. Al despertar del estasis descubreque han pasado cuatro millones años y seha convertido en el último hombre vivo enel universo; o peor.A veces la probable Ventana de Contactoentre civilizaciones se cierra. A veces,como en NIVELES DE CONCIENCIA,existe un abismo de incomprensión entrelas especies.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 69

The Magazine of the brief & fantastic…Título: En el Jardín delEdénAutor: Carlos MartíPortada: David AgundoEditorial: Kelonia EditorialColección: Kelonia JovenPáginas: 128http://www.keloniaeditorial.com/Web/index.php/94-colecciones/kelonia-joven/153-en-eljardin-del-eden-carlos-martiSinopsis: "El Jardín del Edén es el lugarmás maravilloso que existe, y losquerubines son los angelitos más curiososy atrevidos que hay en él. ¿Qué puedeesperarse, sino que visiten la Casa quesiempre cambia; o el Cúmulo; o pasearpor el Bosque a riesgo de toparse con elViejo? ¡Hay tantos lugares! ¿Quién puedeaburrirse? Tal vez los ángeles adultos,siempre tan serios, pero, ¿un querubín?…Título: De monstruos ytrincherasAutor: Ramón MerinoColladoEditorial: Espiral CienciaFicción, nº 52Web:http://aroz.izar.net/nuestracoleccion/tituloactual/index.phpSinopsis: El principio es tansimple como efectivo: unamadrugada, dos niñas sedespiertan habiendo soñado elmismo sueño. Y no son lasúnicas. Muy pronto toda lahumanidad participa de unaensoñación común con tansolo cerrar los ojos. Es lagénesis de Faeria, un universopor derecho propio, unatelaraña onírica que seextiende por todas y cada unade nuestras mentes.Pero el país de los sueños no tarda enagitar la sociedad del antiguo mundo através de una notable diversidad dereacciones. Lo que para unos representa laoportunidad de cambiar las cosas, dealcanzar la felicidad en una tierra nocimentada sobre intereses económicossino sobre el poder de la imaginación,otros lo ven como una amenaza para elstatu quo. Y cuando las opiniones seradicalizan el conflicto es inevitable:grupos culturales y facciones políticas seacabarán enfrentando por el control deeste nuevo feudo del hombre. Los hayquienes tratarán de manipular el sueñocolectivo para servir a suspropios intereses, los quedefenderán Faeria a todacosta… y quienes no cejaránen su empeño por destruirla.El campo de batalla estáservido. Las piezas se hallandispuestas sobre el tablero,una pléyade de personajesescrupulosamente niveladosque entrarán en conflictotanto en las calles del mundomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 70

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticreal como en el más fabulosode los escenarios; un universodonde reina la imaginación yel cual todo, absolutamentetodo, es posible.…Título: El Secreto deExcáliburAutor: Andy McDermottTitulo original: The secretof ExcaliburTraducción: LauraRodríguez MansoEditorial: Factoría de IdeasSinopsis: La espada Excálibur, codiciadapor todos a lo largo de la historia, se creyóperdida durante siglos, pero el historiadorBernd Rust piensa que puede localizar lamítica arma… y que es la clave paraaprovechar una increíble fuente deenergía. Nina se muestra escéptica… hastaque Rust y ella son atacados pormercenarios decididos a adueñarse de susinvestigaciones.Nina y su novio, el exsoldado del SASEddie Chase, se ven prontoinmersos en una carrera mortalpara encontrar a Excálibur.Desde el desierto de Siria a lasinmensidades árticas de Rusia,Nina y Chase deben combatir aun enemigo despiadado queplanea utilizar los poderes de laespada para sumergir al mundoen una nueva era de guerra…Título: La Espada LealTitulo original: The swornswordAutor: G. R. R. Martin, R.Hobb, N. Gaiman, O. S. CardTraducción: Jesús AbascalEditorial: Factoría de IdeasSinopsis: En Poniente, loshermanos Aegon y DaemonFuegoscuro, de la CasaTargaryen, se disputan elTrono de Hierro. Comienza asíla Rebelión de Fuegoscuro, en la que diezmil hombres mueren en el Campo deHierbarroja, entre ellos Fuegoscuro y sushijos, asesinados por el bastardo Cuervode Sangre. Se inicia para los perdedoresuna larga etapa de vergüenza y silencio.La otrora rica Casa de Osgrey, fiel aldragón negro, es condenada a vivir de lacaridad en un aislado torreón junto aBosque Real. Su vecina, una opulentaviuda de la Casa Webber, asola sus tierrashasta que Dunk, un caballero deDesembarco del Rey y su escuderoTargaryen Egg regresandispuestos a hacer justicia.…Título: Anima Mundi I Hijosdel Clan RojoAutor: Elia BarcelóEditorial: MinotauroColección: Destinomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 71

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticSinopsis: En el mundo sóloexisten un puñado de karah,seres especiales, bellos,extremadamente longevos,seres que, según susleyendas, proceden de otrarealidad. Se creen superioresa los simples humanos, aquienes llaman haito: losusan y los desprecian. Hacemilenios que viven entrenosotros y, ahora,lentamente, se estánextinguiendo. Por eso decidenforzar el nacimiento de unnexo que pueda intentar abrirla puerta que comunica conesa otra realidad desconocida.Entonces aparece ella, Lena,«la heroína que nunca quisoserlo», y la vida de unpequeño grupo de humanosno volverá a ser la misma…¡Atrévete con esta misión quecomenzó hace miles de años!…Título: El Libro de LosPortalesAutor: Laura GallegoEditorial: MinotauroSinopsis: Los pintores de laAcademia de los Portales sonlos únicos que saben cómodibujar los extraordinariosportales de viaje queconstituyen la red decomunicación y transportemás importante de Darusia.Sus rígidas normas y suexhaustiva formacióngarantizan una impecableprofesionalidad y perfeccióntécnica en todos sustrabajos.Cuando Tabit, estudiantede último año en laAcademia, recibe el encargode pintar un portal para unhumilde campesino, noimagina que está a punto deverse involucrado en unatrama de intrigas y secretosque podría sacudir los mismoscimientos de la institución.…Título: SusurrosAutor: A.G. HowardTraductores: Lorenzo Díaz,Sandra Sánchez, P.ZumalacárreguiEditorial: Oz Editorialhttp://www.ozeditorial.com/#!susurros/c1vuvSinopsis: El País de lasMaravillas existe.A Alyssa Gardner las floresy los insectos le hablan. Temeque su destino sea acabar enun psiquiátrico, como sumadre, pues una vena delocura recorre su familiadesde tiempos de suantepasada Alicia, la niña quemay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 72

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticinspiró el País de lasMaravillas de Lewis Carroll.Pero ¿y si los susurros de lasflores no son alucinaciones?¿Y si el País de las Maravillasexiste y la está llamando?Alyssa descenderá por lamadriguera del conejo haciaun mundo mágico, perotambién despiadado. Durantesu increíble aventura, tendráque decidir en quién confiar:en Jeb, su mejor amigo, por el que siemprese ha sentido atraída, o en el fascinante yseductor Morfeo, su guía en el País de lasMaravillas y con el que lleva soñandodesde que era niña.…Título: 1ª Crónica, Vampiro AdolescenteTitulo original: Eighth Grade BitesAutor: Heather BrewerTraducción: Rebeca Rueda SalaicesEditorial: La Factoría de IdeasSinopsis: El instituto es una pesadillapara Vladimir Tod, un chavalde trece años. Los abusones loacosan, el director lo vigila decerca y la chica que le gustaprefiere a su mejor amigo. Ah,y Vlad guarda un secreto. Sumadre es humana, pero supadre era un vampiro. Sin lamás mínima idea del alcancede sus poderes y sin nadie quelo oriente, Vlad lucha todoslos días contra su apetito porla sangre y sus colmillosindiscretos.Sin embargo, pronto se darácuenta de que tiene unproblema mucho más grave: lesigue la pista un cazavampirosque se acerca… ¡y rápido!Antologías:Título: Primeros ExiliadosAutores: VV. AA.Portada: R. Anderson.Editor: Tahiel EdicionesÍndicePrologo/Apasionadamente Venus. Maria del PilarJorge/Perdidos en Imboc. Maria del PilarJorge/Acuse de recibo. Ignacio Carlos RomeoPuolakka/Ultima anotación. Ignacio Carlos RomeoPuolakka/En el museo. Ignacio CarlosRomeo Puolakka/Albergue transitorio. NéstorDarío Figueiras/Mandato. Néstor DaríoFigueiras/El sirviente perfecto. CarlosSuchowolski Khon/En familia. CarlosSuchowski Khon/ 29may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 73

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticRealidades opuestas. Cristian Cano/Sueños y complementos. Cristian Cano/Breve bitácora testimonial. CristianCano/La insignificante vida del Dr.Googlesmith. Mario Berardi/Low battery . William E. Fleming/Olvidamos el inicio. William E.Fleming/Symborg. Daniel Frini/Hay una salida. Daniel Frini/Di end is comin. DanielFrini/Alguien tuvo que hacerlo.Carlos Enrique Saldivar Rosas/Enemigo. Carlos EnriqueSaldivar Rosas/Fidelidad. Carlos EnriqueSaldivar Rosas/Dolores de parto. GusmarSosa/La alarma. Gusmar Sosa/Supersticiones. Gusmar Sosa/Café. Andrea Saga/Laboratorio de Pruebas. Andrea Saga/El centinela. Santiago Repetto/Protegiéndose del enemigo. RichardSabogal/En el tren. Ana Caliyuri/Noticias de la radio. Carmen RosaSignes Urrea/Paraíso. Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea/Ave. Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas/Maniobra evasiva. Ricardo AcevedoEsplugas/Adán Y Eva en el espejo. Lucila AdelaGuzmán/Nunca Hicimos. Lucila Adela Guzmán/Un viaje diferente. Ada Inés Lerner/Fiel en el espacio. Ada Inés Lerner/La Sentencia. Sebastián L. Saugar/Brindis por un mundo nuevo. ManuelSantamaría Barrios/Una mirada al futuro. ManuelSantamaría Barrios/Distorsión. Laura RamírezVides/Órganos. Laura RamírezVides/Oscuridad. M. R. Olivieri/Rumbo a Zoar. VioletaBeláin/Un nuevo comienzo. JoséLuis Pastor/La ultima bestia humana. Claudio LeonelSiadore Gut/Formas alternativas de vida. José V. BauGiménez/Puertas. Juan Manuel Valitutti/ 106Morir tiene sus privilegios. MiguelDorelo/Cofesión. Roberto Garrido Palomero/…Título: Los Micros de CthulhuAutores: VV. AA.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 74

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticEditor: Leyenda.net.Coordinación y correcciones: Entropía,Santiago Eximeno y MisneMaquetación: Santiago EximenoIlustración de portada: Rubén García(Salino)Descarga:http://www.leyenda.net/cthulhu/articulo.php?id=1455&pagina_op=4#opinionesÍndice:Impronunciable no es innombrable,Misne 5The call, EntropíaHaikuthlu, IuliusChathulhu, IuliusLa llamada de cthulhu, SantiagoEximenoDía del apocalipsis. 8:00am, IuliusFanáticos, SalinoA la gallega, Santiago EximenoA la catalana, Tristan OberonLos malincuentes también tienencorasón, R.R.LópezSopa de marisco, Santiago EximenoComo la vida misma, Tristan OberonLovecraft xxi, IuliusÉxodo, IuliusLost in translation, R.R.LópezTungusca, R.R.LópezProposiciones deshonestas, MisneRegalo de cumpleaños, SantiagoEximenoPartida de rol un sábado por la noche enel centro residencial universitario deMiskatonic, SalinoEl trono, Entwistle (Alonso Fdez.)Los casos del inspector o’jal, EntropíaExtractos de cuentos clásicos originales,SalinoLa bella durmiente, Santiago EximenoEl color que cayó del cielo, SantiagoEximenoEn las profundidades, bajo el arrecife deldiablo, VargharLa “micro” de cthulhu, SacerdoteI wanna be a porn star, MisneSin título, IuliusLa primera persona que se encontró caraa cara con el hermano de wilbur,R.R.LópezUn vendedor con iniciativa, R.R.LópezEl viaje de randolph, SalinoEl carpintero de las vegas, R.R.LópezEl viaje de azrael, R.R.LópezNecronomicón 2.0, Salino¡Pasen y vean!, Tristan OberonLa cabalgata, EntropíaUn molesto despertar, R.R.LópezPoe xxi, IuliusBocas que alimentar, EntropíaLa última parada, Entwistle (AlonsoFdez.)Pañuelo rojo, Dexter WilloughbyEl espécimen atrapado, Salinomay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 75

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticLa última autopsia del dr.Lázaro, WiseWolf (RandallF. Padilla B)La última reflexión,Entwistle (Alonso Fdez.)La luz más oscura,Entwistle (Alonso Fdez.)La espera, GorgoteanteSkype, Entwistle (AlonsoFdez.)El espejo, Entwistle(Alonso Fdez.)Tule, WiseWolf (Randall F. Padilla B)El filo, Entwistle (Alonso Fdez.) 29¡Ponte recto!, EntropíaHorror a flor de piel, R.R.LópezFiesta sorpresa, SalinoLa herencia, SalinoExfoliante, EntropíaGal, WiseWolf (Randall F. Padilla B)El eco, SalinoOlaus wormius, SalinoIn servus, VargharFragmentos, SacerdoteTier, SacerdotePh´nglui mglw´nafh cthulhu r´lyehwgah´naglFhtagn, GorgoteanteLa catedral del mar, IuliusCausalidad, Tristan OberonLa guerra del eón, Tristan OberonEl evento, entwistle (Alonso Fdez.)El despertar de cthulhu,SalinoLibros Juego:Título: Los caminantes.Destino: CarranqueAutor: Carlos Sisi/ VV.AA.Editorial: Timun mashttp://www.planetadelibros.com/los-caminantes-librojuego-libro-92604.htmlSinopsis: Acabas derecuperar la consciencia. Has tenido ungrave accidente de coche y yaces junto atu novia. Ella iba al volante. Poco a pocorecuerdas qué pasó: un hombre extrañoque deambulaba por la carretera os hizoperder el control y caísteis por unterraplén. Acercas la mano al cuello de tuchica y compruebas que no hay pulso.Intentas salir para buscar ayuda, pero lapuerta está atascada...Así empieza esta aventura que llevará allector al mundo de «Los caminantes» deCarlos Sisí y sus zombies. Él será elprotagonista, tomará las decisiones y diráhacia dónde correr. Tanto para losseguidor de los libro juego o los fanáticosde «Los caminantes», Libro juego Loscaminantes. Destino: Carranque les daráotra experiencia de lectura.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 76…Título: Tramórea La cacería secretaAutor: Javier Negrete/ VV. AA.Editorial: Timun mas

The Magazine of the brief & fantastichttp://www.planetadelibros.com/tramorea-libro-juego-libro-92603.htmlSinopsis: Eres alumno en Uhdanfiún, laacademia de artes marciales másprestigiosa y antigua de Tramórea. Tercerhijo de una acomodadafamilia Ainari, estáspredestinado a convertirteen un gran guerrero, perotu verdadera pasión es lainvestigación. Formasparte de un grupo dealumnos de la escuela queva al este de Korvas parapracticar habilidades desupervivencia. Perocuando os disponéis abuscar alimento, ostienden una emboscada.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 77

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticAbout the Writers and IllustratorsWriters:illustratorsillustratorsAcevedo illustrators Esplugas, Ricardo(Cuba, 1969) Writer and editor ofdigital magazine miNaturahttp://www.servercronos.net/bloglgc/index.php/minatura/Aldunate, Federico Miguel (LaPlata, Argentina, 25 years old)Sometimes college student mathteacher, also drummer of candombe. Ihave published stories in The Cave ofthe Wolf, and Novurbo ChroniclesmiNatura (#123).Blog:http://www.elpapoola.blogspot.com.arAlfonso, Graciela Marta(Buenos Aires, Argentina)Professor of Fine Arts in Painting andPrintmaking Orientation of the"National School of Fine ArtsPrilidiano Pueyrredón", and Bachelorin Visual Arts Orientation EngravingArt Institute "IUNA".Thesis performed, "Poetics of BookArt and Book Object".Artist Book xylographic of uniquecopy with illustrated poems.Publications: Book of Poems "TheSilence of the Fire."Selected and published in the Call:Poetry and Short Story Anthology,organized by "Passion of Writers".Argentina.Selected and published in the Call:Short Story and Poetry Anthology, "ALook at the South." Argentina.Selected at the XIII InternationalPoetry and Story Contest 2012,organized by "Argentine WritersGroup."Publication of his work: PoemRandom in magazine "Arts and LettersPlurentes", National University of LaPlata, Argentina.Collaborates with various literaryjournals, where he accompanied hisliterature with the visualrepresentation.Báez Milan, Tony (Puerto Rico)Internationally published numerousshort stories in Spanish and English,in journals including The CriticalPoint, Yagrumal, Papyrus, Textshop,RE: AL, Clarín, Los Mejores Cuentos,Lynx Eye, Ariadna, Resonancias, andAxxón.He is the author of the books CuentosDe Un Continente Invisible, Embrujo,and Noel Y Los Tres Santos ReyesMagos. Among other films, wrote anddirected the film Ray Bradbury'sChrysalis, based on a story bylegendary American author. His latestbook, a thriller, is El Bueno Y El Malo.Baez Milan resides in Greensburg,Pennsylvania, with his wife andchildren.www.tonybaezmilan.commay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 78

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticBaez, Rodolfo (Rancho Arriba,San José de Ocoa, DominicanRepublic, 1983) Is currentlydeveloping his career Thesis SocialCommunication, Journalism Mentionat the Autonomous University of SantoDomingo. Storytellers Workshopbelongs to Santo Domingo from theMinistry of Culture. Published underthe pseudonym of The Silence cat thepoems of my soul and Verses in minorart also has unpublished books,"Poems of abandonment, more versesin minor art, Shadow blue eyes, TheReturn of the Prodigal Son the Man of100 hearts and memories, these arerespectively three books of poetry, anovella and two storybooks. About theAuthors and illustratorsHe now works in the trilogy of novelsDaughter of Commander whose seriesis finished the first volume, and givesthe final steps to the second, which iscalled The crime, a blood pact, andanother novella works which have notdecides to head.He has worked for the past five yearsin various national stations asannouncer.He is also a music lover with someease to perform within their bars, soyou can play several instruments.Balián, Violeta (Argentina)Studied History and Humanities atSFSU. In Washington, D.C.contributed as a freelance writer toWashington Woman and for 10 yearswas Editor in Chief for The VioletGazette, a quarterly botanical review.In 2012 and in Buenos Aires shepublished El Expediente Glasser (TheGlasser Dossier) a science fiction novelwith Editorial Dunken and its digitalversion through Amazon.com. Baliánis also one of the 28 Latin Americanwriters participating in PrimerosExiliados (First Exiles) a ci-fianthology to be published in Argentinain March 2013.http://violetabalian.blogspot.comhttp://elexpedienteglasser.blogspot.comCalvo Sanz, David (Spain)occasional writer, when not fightingcrime, he likes to listen to thesoundtrack of Conan the Barbarian,read books that do not get bored andwatch over and over old chapters ofDoctor Who. And yes, I know they arepretty crappy. But he likes.Candelaria Zárate, Mª. DelSocorro (Mexico, 38 years old)Academic Program Coordinator. SanLuis de Potosi. He has worked invarious issues of the digital miNatura.De Lier, Amancio (Magdalenade Kino, Sonora, Mexico) Poet andResearcher Vanguardia artist. Postedin independent publishing,undergrounds and fanzines. Author of"Dancing in the Dark", "AutoUmbría","Ash Rose" and "Moon Theatricals".now writing the book "BeforeCervantes" in which reconstructionwill Poetics and Historic SpanishGolden Century. One of the biggestpromises of Literature Poetry inmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 79

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticMexico. Currently holds a struggle toremain lucid and his life.Díez, Carlos (Leon, Spain, 31years old) Has published twoeditions microstories yearbook"Release on words", published by theFoundation for Civil Rights "and wonfirst prize in the contest IV CaudeteLove Letters . Published in the journal"loudly" Caudete and the numbers 10and 13 of the magazine "Estadea". In2008, one of his poems have beenpublished in the About the authorsand illustrators poetry book "Poemsfor a minute II", the Editorialhypallage.Regular contributor to the websitesof political opinionAustroliberales.com and "middleclasses of Aragon" and the literarymagazine "Alborada-Goizialdia". Hecurrently resides in Madrid.Fontanarrosa, Sebastián Ariel(Argentina) writer of short storiesand novels microstories fantasy andhorror."Juan" (Justice PLC), with honorsawarded work and publication of 3000copies per publishing area. same workNovel Art selected by Publisher tointegrate his anthology. "A pit" workawarded with distinction from authorEditorial meritorious Tenth Musecontest most other works on selectedshort stories in various internationalcompetitions.I count three novels and a catalog of30 stories not published.Galán Ruiz, Diego (Spain, 39years old) So far I have published thestory LA PRIMERA VEZ in the onlinedigital magazine LA IRA DEMORFEO, the short story LAAMANTE has been published in thebook CACHITOS DE AMOR II and theshort story EL DOLOR DE CABEZA,in Book II emerged from internationalcompetition for mundopalabrasmicrostories.Gil Benedicto, María José(España) I write short stories, poetryand tales. I have worked in somenumbers of “miNatura DigitalMagazine”. I won the X InternationalCompetition of Fantastic Micro-StoryMinatura 2012 with the tale “Carola noestá”.Guadalupe Ingelmo, Salomé(Spain) She is Doctor in Philosophyand Arts, educated in Spain and Italy(where she also worked as translatorand teacher of Spanish). She is amember of the Institute for the Studyof the Ancient Middle East, located atthe Autonomous University of Madrid,where she develops educationalactivities since 2006 as honoraryprofessor, teaching courses related tolanguages and cultures of the AncientMiddle East.She has received many national andinternational literary prizes. Amongthem: in every edition of the FranciscoGarzón Céspedes Awards (CIINOE)from 2010 until 2012, II Prize“Crossing the Strait” organized byGranada Culture and Societymay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 80

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticFoundation, V Short Story Contest onWater Aljarafesa...Her stories have been included innumerous anthologies. We couldhighlight the digital publication of hisshort story Sueñan los niños aldeanoscon libélulas mecánicas (Dreamvillagers children about mechanicaldragonflies) (Los Cuadernos de lasGaviotas n. 6, CIINOE/COMOARTES,Madrid/México D. F.: 2010), includedlater in Antología de cuentosiberoamericanos en vuelo (Anthologyof Latin American stories in flight).Her text Es el invierno migración delalma: variaciones sobre una estampaeterna (Is the winter migration of thesoul: eternal variations on a picture),appeared in “Las grullas como recursoturístico en Extremadura” (“Thecranes as a tourist resort inExtremadura”), was published by theDepartment of Tourism of theRegional Government of Extremadurain 2011.She prefaced The Portrait of DorianGray, written by Oscar Wilde, and shealso wrote the introduction to theAnthology of the VIII BonaventurianoContest of Short Story and Poetry,organized by the University of SanBuenaventura of Cali (Colombia), inwhich she acted as jury for the event.She was also member of the jury at theV and VI International LiteraryContest Angel Ganivet, organized bythe Association of Friends of Helsinki(Finland).In addition to writing a huge numberof short stories, she is the author ofseveral poetry anthologies and twounpublished novels.Her first digital anthology of shortstories (thirteen tales: eleven winnersof various literary prizes andpreviously published in jointanthologies of multiple authors andtwo other, head and close,unpublished), La imperfección delcírculo (The imperfection of thecircle), and an extensive interview, Lanarrativa es introspección yrevelación: Francisco Garzón Céspedesestrevista a Salomé GuadalupeIngelmo (The narrative isintrospection and revelation:Francisco Garzón Céspedes interviewsSalomé Guadalupe Ingelmo), part ofthe collection of narrative inquiryContemporáneos del Mundo(Contemporary of the World),supervised by the prestigious writerand man of culture Francisco GarzónCéspedes, have both come to lightrecently.She has frequently collaborates withRevista Digital miNatura: Revista de lobreve y lo fantástico (miNatura DigitalMagazine: Magazine of the brief andthe fantastic) since 2009.More detailed information about hercareer in the world of literature maybe obtained by consultinghttp://sites.google.com/site/salomeguadalupeingelmo/Guinot, Juan (Mercedes,Argentina) Degree in Businessmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 81

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticAdministration, Social Psychologistand Master in Management. In 2001he decided to leave a CommercialManager position to become a writer.Since then, his stories have receivedliterary references in Spain, Argentinaand Cuba, which have also appeared inmagazines and anthologies story. Heworks in radio. His novel The War of2022-edited by Talentura Gallo(Spain) in 2011.www.juanguinot.blogspot.comGuzmán, Lucila Adela (BuenosAires, Argentina, 1960) haspublished a children's book entitled "Doctora de Letras " Editorial Elevé2011 finalist, recently presented at theInternational Book Fair 2012, in theCity of Buenos Aires. Finalist contestof children's literature in honor ofMaria Elena Walsh, with the storyentitled " El cuentero ", forthcomingHe has received several citations forhis poems: National Poetry ContestCorral de Bustos 2011. InternationalPoetry Contest fantastic miNaturamagazine 2012. Eco World PoetryContest 2012. Spanish AmericanPoetry Contest "Gabriela" in honor ofGabriela Mistral and others.Lives in the City of Del Viso with herhusband and four children.Hernández, Priscilla (LaPalma, Islas Canarias, Spain) Iam a composer and singer-songwriter,multi-instrumentalist and fantasyillustrator from the Canary Islandsnow based in Barcelona (Spain). Mymusic can be described as "etherealgothic" inspired in fairy and ghosttales and with a great component offantasy.Angelic voices, cinematicsoundscapes, bitter and meaningfullullabies. Discover the spectralspellbinding dark side of fairytales.Melodies that weave a fantastic andunknown kingdom. The light, theshade, the fairy, the ghost, theUnderliving...I've written songs all my life but itwas a hidden passion till May 2002when I encouraged myself to uploadmy first recording track to mp3.com:"I steal the leaves" and later a demowith the same title and other songs.After collaborating in several projectsand decline a wealth of record deals inorder to keep the spirit of my workuntouched. I released late 2006 mydebut album "Ancient shadows" withthe help of my fans and listeners andunder my own company and labelYIDNETH (which is also the name ofmy illustrated comic book project).The project achieved severalnominations and awards and gothundreds of positive reviews inspecialized publications worldwide. Ihave performed in different countrieslike USA, UK, Germany and Spain.The visuals of our performances areinspired in worlds of wonder andfantasy, carrying away the audience toa place where Light and Shadowcollide, that mysterious place youknow from your dreams, wrapped bythe sound of heavenly vocals andancient, exotic instruments.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 82

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticWeb oficial:http://priscillahernandez.comWeb de The Underliving:http://theunderliving.comNetwork: http://twitter.com/yidnethIbáñez González, Rubén (Jaén,Spain, 1975) I'm a senior professorof Music in Composition and MusicTheory. I have also studied Piano andI'm currently undertaking superioroboe studies. I'm a teacher in a MusicSchool Academy. I've written fornumbers 121 to 125 of this magazine.The books “Miradas de Navidad 8” (LaFragua del Trovador), “La novelanegra” (ArtGerüst) and “Cachitos deamor 2” (ACEN) also include storiesthat I have written. I won the SecondPrize in the second edition of thecontest “Concurso de Relatos de laWeb del Terror”, I was a finalist in thefollowing literary competitions:“Concurso de relatos de terrorTodosleemos.com”, “X CertamenInternacional de MicrocuentoFantástico Minatura 2012” and in thesecond short-stories competition“Pepita López”. I was also one of thewinners of the contest “XI Certamende narrativa social del AteneoLibertario Al Margen”.Jurado Marcos, Cristina(Madrid, Spain, 1972) Has a degreein Information Sciences from theUniversity of Seville. It has a Mastersin Rhetoric from NorthwesternUniversity (USA). Currently shestudied Philosophy at the OpenUniversity. Has lived in Edinburgh(UK), Chicago (USA) and Paris(France). His short story "Paper" wasselected in the 1st Story ContestEditorial Briefs GEEP for the title ofthe anthology that collects the winningentries. His story "Higher Lives" was afinalist in Round 1 miNatura Editions.He has published his stories in "lostpapers" (Babelia blog, the literarysupplement of El Pais) and Letraliamagazine and contributes regularly topublications of the genre. Write a blogabout science fiction Libros.comhttp://blogs.libros.com/literaturaciencia-ficcion/and has just publishedhis first novel Del Naranja al Azul inthe United-PC publishinghttp://es.unitedpc.eu/libros/narrativanovela/sciencia-ficcion-fantasia.htmlOdilius Vlak –seud.− (Azua,Dominican Republic) Writer withcontinuous self-taught, freelancejournalist and translator.In December 2009, created togetherwith a team of writers, illustrators andcomic book artists, the Blogzine,Zothique The Last Continent, spacedevoted to the genre of ScienceFiction, Horror and dark fantasyespecially. The latter symbolized bythe blog name taken from theeponymous series American writer,Clark Ashton Smith.As a freelance translator, and theromantic aspect of the trade-isdedicated to translate new texts inSpanish, whether essays, stories,poems, literature related to gender.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 83

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticIncluding a series of pulp sciencefiction stories of Smith, published indue course in Wonder Storiesmagazine.Also tests Lovecraft and Edgar AllanPoe.As a writer, he has two unpublishedbooks in print but whose documentsare posted on the Blog: "BottomlessTombs" and "Plexus Lunaris'. Poeticprose narratives that constitute theirfirst explorations in search of theirown language and therefore the firststage of his literary career.They explore the dark side of theimagination in a kind of symbolicfantasy, closer visionary poetry ofWilliam Blake that narrativeexpressions of the fantasy genre as weknow [Epic: Tolkien / Sword andSorcery: Howard]. Just finished hisstory, "The Demon of voice", the firstof a series entitled, "TandrelChronicles" and has begun work onthe second, "The dungeons of gravity."www.zothiqueelultimocontinente.wordpress.comPacheco Estrada, Tomás(Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico, 34years old) Take a short film andvideo online this is called Ana Claudiade los Santos in Youtube. Besideshaving two accounts online. Inaddition to a story called El ultimohombre sobre la Tierra in miNaturavirtual magazine (# 98). Work on thefilm in the trailer are Ceroni you had.Besides participating in the televisionseries of Ramon Valdez A2D3-winningliterary contest 8th festival de la cañathat takes place in Córdoba(Veracruz).Pachón Ulierte, Juan (Spain, 25years) Degree in English philologyand I have a couple of blogs / stories:Diary of a Young Teen withTelekinesis.www.jovenadolescentecontelequinesis.blogspot.comwww.elninjaenano.blogspot.comPantelis, Sissy (Greece) Is awriter of fantasy and comic. Hisstories have been published in Greece,France and the UK. He has worked asco-editor of the French magazineScience Fiction Galaxies.He has written and edited severalstories for Dark Brain, including God'sPlay, Columbia Underbelly, LockedOut (due out in print as early asJanuary 2012). His graphic shortstories have been published in ICCWanthology comic anthologyIDWPresent FTL and British.Upcoming projects include a graphicnovel called Blue Sparkles, to bepublished by MARCOSIA and manyother comics and prose.Patricia O. (Patokata)-SEUD. -(Montevideo, Uruguay) publishestexts of his own authorship in blogsand some blogs shared. He hascollaborated on several literarymagazines of the network. Currentlyworking in Pen and Inkwell LiteraryMagazine, Digital Magazine andLiterary Magazine miNatura words. Itmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 84

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticalso has its own micro column:"ravings of Muses" at Sharp Pen. It haspublished books themselves but sharesspace with other authors in the bookspublished by the Cultural Sphere: ThatOther Stories of Christmas and Porter,respectively, also in poetry anthologiesI Am Woman Movement InternationalWomen Poets Anthology of LiteraryEncounters First InternationalELILUC.Parrilla, Ernesto (Argentina)published in anthologies of themunicipality of Villa Constitución(Argentina), in 2002, 2008, 2009,2010 and 2011.In 2009, 2010 and 2011 was selectedby Publisher Dunken (Argentina) forhis anthologies of short stories.Participated in the three volumes of"Worlds in Darkness" (2008, 2009and 2010) Galmort Editions(Argentina), receiving an honorablemention in the third contestnamesake.López Manzano, Pedro (Spain,Murcia, 1977) computers engineer,film editor and scriptwriter, as awriter, he’s principally a tales author.He published for the first time at theMurcia Joven Literatura 05compilation, thereafter he’s been anusual contributor to many webs,magazines and fanzines (miNatura,NGC 3660, Planetas Prohibidos, Loszombis no saben leer,…) with filmsand books reviews, articles, tales andmicrotales in fantastic, horror orscience fiction genres.He has obtained a jury mention atthe Portal del Escritor’s Escritores ensu Tinta contest and he’s been selectedas finalist for the following awards: IPremio TerBi de Relato TemáticoFantástico: Mutaciones, IV PremioOvelles Elèctriques and Coseña Eñe2011. He’s also been selected for thefollowing published anthologies: El díade los cinco reyes y otros relatos,Ácronos. Antología Steampunk and2099. Antología de Ciencia Ficción,among others.However, he carries out the most ofhis activities at this point on his blog:Cree lo que quieras(http://creeloquequieras.blogspot.com).López Tavani, Majo (BuenosAires, Argentina) she is a poet. Alsoapprentice storyteller and Tarot.www.lasplumasbuenosaires.blogspot.comwww.lasplumasficciones.blogspot.comMartínez Burkett, Pablo (SantaFe, Argentina, 1965) Since 1990lives in the city of Buenos Aires. Writerby vocation and a lawyer byprofession, is teaching graduateuniversities in the country and abroad.He has won over a dozen awards inliterary competitions in Argentina andSpain. In 2010 he received the 2ndprize in the National CompetitionTales Bioy Casares and 1st prize in theNational Literature and FantasticHorror "dark world". He has publishedstories and poems in ten anthologies.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 85

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticRegularly collaborates magazines andsites devoted to fantasy literature,horror and science fiction. He recentlypresented "Penumbras Smith"(Ediciones Galmort, 2010), a book ofstories that give the reader a uniqueaccount of joint portrait and disclosureanomalous everyday. It also ispreparing a book of fairy talesforthcoming where groups all storiespublished in the magazine miNatura.Some of their stories can be read inthe.Blog:www.eleclipsedegyllenedraken.blogspot.comMartínez González, Omar(Centro Habana, Cuba, 41 yearsold) Has participated in the followingcompetitions: Provincial Competition"Eliezer Lazo", Matanzas, 1998, 99,2000 (Distinction), 2001; MunicipalVaradero "Basilio Alfonso", 1997, 98(Distinction), 99 (1st Mention), 2002;Competition Provincial MunicipalityMartí 1999, 2000 (Distinction)Territorial Competition "Candil Fray",Matanzas, 1999, 2000, (Distinction)National Competition Alejo Carpentier1999 CF National Contest YouthTechnical Journal 2002, 03; NationalCompetition Ernest Hemingway,Havana 2003 Literary ContestExtramuros Promotion Centre "LuisRogelio Nogueras 2004" LiteraryContest 2005 Center FarraluqueFayad Jamis (Finalist) Cuba Event-Fiction 2003 Award "Rationale "2005Alejo Carpentier Foundation,International Competition" TheRevelation ", Spain, 2008-9 (Finalist),2009-10 (Finalist) InternationalCompetition" Wave Polygon ", Spain,2009, Finalist; monthly Contestwebsite QueLibroLeo, Spain, 2008-9;Microstories monthly Contest onLawyers, Spain, 2009.Medina Hinojosa, Sarko(Arequipa, Peru, 32 years)journalist by profession, a writer ofstories from 8 years. Despite beingcompletely new publications on thesubject of books, his stories haveappeared in magazines intermittentlypaper and ink: Fantástico, Billiken,Cara de Camión, Valkiria, etc.., as wellas magazines and digital blogsQuímicamente Impuro, Tanatología;Breves no Tan Breves; Ráfagas,Parpadeos, brief history of microMicrocuentista christmas ofInternational, to name a few. Winnerof the first prize Fantastic Talesmagazine in 2004, has beenmentioned or finalist in several others.Currently is about to release his firstbook of short stories: “10 cuentosUrbanos”. It belongs to the AsociaciónCultural Minotauro and writes articlesfor various print media (CiudadNueva, Los Andes, etc.). Directs RadioProgram Usted Decide.www.sarkadria.wordpress.comwww.sarkomedina.wordpress.comwww.urbaneando.wordpress.comMoreno, Gorka (Barakaldo,Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain, 1981)From a very young age I had greatmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 86

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticadmiration for everything aboutmovies, comics, literature, etc ...Although circumstances my studieshave led me in another direction, it isthis passion that has made devote myspare time to writing scripts for shortfilms and comics. Some have alreadybecome reality as is the case of"Shackles" and others are underway.Collaborated with the film webwww.Klownsasesinos.com doingmovie reviews and opinion on theworld of film and now I have thechance to miNatura. I currently live inBarcelona.Muñoz, Deborah F. (Spain) havebeen a finalist in several official andliterary competitions Caja de Ávila2010, Literatura comprimida 2009, Lafragua del Trovador… contests as wellas the blogoesfera. In addition, therehave been several of my stories inliterary anthologies and havecollaborated on several occasions withmiNatura and Villalkor magazine. Onthe other hand, I have several literaryjournals in which I hang my storiesand blognovelas: escribolee,Incursores de la noche and Atrapadaen otra dimensión, the latter havingbeen published in electronic format.Noroña Lamas, Juan Pablo(Havana, Cuba, 1973) Degree inPhilology. Editor-corrector of RadioReloj. His stories have appeared in theanthology Eternal Kingdom (LetrasCubanas, 2000), Secret of Future andCrónicas del Mañana and the DigitalMagazines fantasy and science fictionmiNatura and Disparo en Red.Prize was the Short StoryCompetition and finalist Half-RoundCompetition Cubaficción Dragon and2001 among others.Rubio Bores, Rocío (Spain) Igraduated in English from theUniversity of León, pursuing my finalyear in Trinity College Dublin with ascholarship Erasmus.I am currently doing a postgraduatedistance in comparative literature andcultural criticism, and I combine itwith various online writing courses.www.undiaentexas.blogspot.comSaldivar, (Carlos Enrique Lima,Perú, 1982) He studied Literature atthe National University FedericoVillareal. He is director of the printmagazine Argonauts and fanzine TheHorla, also he is a member of theeditorial board of the virtual fanzineBlack Hole, all publications onFantastic Literature. He publishedreviews, articles, poems and stories invarious blogs and magazines. Hisstories and poems have appeared insome peruvian and internationalanthologies. He was a finalist of theAndromeda of speculative fictionawards 2011 in the category: shortstory. He has published three books:Science fiction stories (tales, 2008),Fantasy horizons (tales, 2010) and Theother monster (tale, 2012). Hecompiled selection Murder of crowns:tales of terror and suspense (2011).may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 87

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticBlog:www.fanzineelhorla.blogspot.comSantamaría Barrios, Manuel(Cádiz, Spain, 1977) Degree inNautical and Maritime Transport.Currently working as a freelancetrainer courses merchant navy.Although I always liked reading thisafternoon I started writing. I postedstories in digital magazines asmiNatura, Anima Barda, Los ZombiesNo Saben Leer and Pífano Fanzine.Collaborate as a writer in the “ElGuardián de Latvería” Digital DiaryBay of Cadiz, and in the “SantaSantorum” Web page Cádiz Carnival.A great lover of comics, for years Imanage on Facebook the group “LaMazmorra de Latveria”.Other publications away from thegenre that I have made are thedevelopment and revision of manualsfor maritime training.Sequeir0, Rachel (Betanzos,Spain, 1978) self-taught writer. Since2011, working on his blog (a collectionof texts cut, micros and fragments)that publishes poetry, short storiesand tales, and recently in Julius RalphLawrence-page novel written throughthe network. In 2010 participates inthe fourth edition of the LiteraryAward Volkswagen do read theunpublished novel Entre libélulasazules, mistery gender. Write fairytales fantasy genre. Since recentlycollaborated on Heliconia group.Shua, Ana María (Argentina,1951- ) Has published over fortybooks in numerous genres: novels,short stories, poetry, drama, children'sfiction, books of humor and Jewishfolklore, anthologies, film scripts,journalistic articles, and essays. Herwriting has been translated into manylanguages, including English, French,German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch,Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian,and Serbian, and her stories appear inanthologies throughout the world. Shehas received numerous national andinternational awards, including aGuggenheim fellowship, and is one ofArgentina’s premier living writers.Signes Urrea, Carmen Rosa(Castellón, Spain, 1963) Ceramist,photographer and illustrator. Hasbeen writing since childhood, haspublished works on websites, blogsand digital magazines (MagazineNetwork Science Fiction, Scientist,NGC3660, Portal CIFI miNaturaDigital Magazine, not so brief Briefs,chemically impure, Gust flashes,Letters to dream, preached.com, TheGreat Pumpkin, Cuentanet, BlogCount stories, Monelle's book, 365contes, etc.).He wrote under the pseudonymMonelle. Currently manages severalblogs, two of them related to DigitalMagazine miNatura that co-directswith her husband Ricardo Acevedo, apublication specializing in micro storyand the fantasy genre short story. Hehas been a finalist in severalcompetitions and micro story shortmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 88

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticstory: the first two editions of theannual contest Owl Group, in botheditions of the pageant Letters fairytale dream, I Contest horror shortstory the boy square; mobileLiterature Contest 2010, magazineJan. He has served as a juror incompetitions both literary andceramic, and conducting photographyworkshops, ceramics and literary.Suchowolski, Carlos (Mendoza,Argentina, 1948) He wrotte manycience-fiction and “magic reality”shorts stories, published in newspappers, magazines, and digital sites,like Axxon, Artifex, Microrelatos,Químicamente impuro, Minatura,Planetas Prohibidos, Umbral, NM...,translated to flamish, bulgarian,rusian and italian, and was included inseveral antologies like the onepublished by Ultramar Editions(Argentina) alter being finalist in thecorresponding internationalcompetition in 1988. He was selectedfor trhee times for the anualpublications made by the Spanish CFAsociation (Visiones 2004,Fabricantes de sueños 2004 andVisiones 2007) destinated to the bestwritted short stories in the year. In2007, his first novell "Una nuevaconciencia" (A new concieusness) waslaunched (by Mandrágora). Acollection of short stories will bepublished soon in Argentina (byAndrómeda). Hefinish a newcollection of short stories, and hissecond novel. Lives in Spain since1976.Texy Cruz –SEUD.− (CanaryIslands, Spain. 32 years old) Hasbeen involved with winnings fromParoxismo literario, Imperatur,Grafitis del alma. Support Psiconautamagazine.Toussaint, Deisy (SantoDomingo, Dominican Republic,1987) lived their adolescence inGuadeloupe (French West Indies)studied French at the AllianceFrancaise. Current SocialCommunication student at theAutonomous University of SantoDomingo and Portuguese CulturalCenter Brazil. It belongs to the literaryworkshops " Narradores de SantoDomingo " and " Taller LiterarioLitervolución". He won secondcategory stories in the contest XIVcertamen de “talleristas” 2011 with thestory "La Carta" is dancer of Polynesiaand runway model in her country.Tynjälä, Tanya (Peru) Writer andprofessor of language and culture(French and Spanish) married to aFinn and mother of two girls aged 22and 12 years respectively. Public novelscience - fiction “La Ciudad de losNictálope” and the book "Cuentos dela Princesa Malva", both with NORMAEditorial. It is included in theanthologies “Canto a un prisionero”.American Anti-Imperialist EditorialPoets 2005, Ottawa - Canada, and in"Breves, brevísimos. Antología de lamini ficción peruana". The Holy OfficePublisher 2006, Lima-Peru. He hasworked as a journalist in variouscultural magazines Lima. Texts havemay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 89

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticappeared in literary magazines Limaas: Imaginario del Arte, Umbral,revista digital miNatura, Arteidea,,among others, as well as in Finnishmagazines Ses and Voima. PedagogyStudies (specialization in French -Foreign Language) in LimaPedagogical Institute and theUniversity of Grenoble - France(master). He is a PhD candidate inFrench philology at the University ofHelsinki.Illustrators:Pág. 34 Acevedo, George(EE.UU.) Illustrator.http://www.georgeacevedo.com/gallery.htmlPág. 45 Alonso, Graciela Marta(Argentina) see Writers.Pág. 26, 60 Ascúa, Miriam(Argentina) Bachelor of Fine Artsfrom the University of La Plata.Researcher representation techniques.Freelance illustrator.Pág. 47 Colbie, Tom (Canada)Illustrator, currently lives and worksbetween Berlin and northern Italy.For all other information please seemy work on my websitehttp://tomcolbieart.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Colbie-Art/155852504481947Pág. 17 Coscarelli, Javier(Argentina, 1977) Illustrator andcomic creator.Public in SQPinc, fantastic art anderotic Editorial Perfil, comics andillustration, Ayarmanot editions,comics and illustrationIt's almost a degree in visual artsCurrently is being linked in a numberof projects and teacheshttp://javier-jacofantasi-eroticart.blogspot.com.es/http://ilustracionesjaviercoscarelli.blogspot.com.es/http://pinturasjaviercoscarelli.blogspot.com.es/http://comics-javiercoscarelli.blogspot.com.es/http://ilustracionesinfantilesjavier.blogspot.com.es/http://solocomicsjaviercoscarelli.blogspot.com.ar/Pág. 24 Didizuka –SEUD. –(France) She is an extremely talentedartist with a strong personality and ahuge creative potential. She has beenworking on various projects includingillustrations, bandes dessinées,creation of videos to advertize forcomics by various publishers. She wasthe main creator of the animation partof Le Rat Bleu, a mixed show whichincluded stage performance, music,animation. Cindy also publishes herown fanzine called E-Crucify.Here are her sites:https://www.facebook.com/DidizukaArthttp://didizuka.free.frmay- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 90

The Magazine of the brief & fantastichttp://didizuka.deviantart.comhttp://crucify.coolbb.net/index.htmPág. 31 Gerrard, Paul (UK) Acareer spanning over 15 years, as anart director and concept artist for theentertainment industry . Working onsome of hollywoods largest movieswith success in games /film andexhibitions worldwide. Most noted forpitch work , selling a project / moviepitch via striking 'out of the box'designs. Getting that illusive greenlight. Then furthermore creatingstunning , provocative concept artthrough to preproduction and beyond.www.gerrardart.comhttp://www.facebook.com/HellraiserOriginshttps://twitter.com/FLESHMACHINESPág. 40 Gorelko Ekaterina, -Kristoff- (Moscow, Russia, 1991)is a russian freelance artist, she worksand studies in Moscow for the past 3years. For 21-year-old artist, realism isa goal. She also likes mystical andsometimes obscure style of workingfor her personal pieces. Most of thestages of the work are created inPhotoshop, sometime work starts withpaper scetches and doodles.Facebook:www.facebook.com/ekatherina.gorelkohttp://www.conceptart.org/showthread.php?t=175813&page=9#.UXWIu7WePTghttp://ka-g-o.deviantart.com/http://vkontakte.ru/kristofffPág. 43 Hernández, Priscilla(Canary Islands, Spain) composerand singer-songwriter, multiinstrumentalistand fantasyillustrator. My music can be describedas "ethereal gothic" inspired in fairyand ghost tales and with a greatcomponent of fantasy.Angelic voices, cinematicsoundscapes, bitter and meaningfullullabies. Discover the spectralspellbinding dark side of fairytales.Melodies that weave a fantastic andunknown kingdom. The light, theshade, the fairy, the ghost, theUnderliving...I've written songs all my life but itwas a hidden passion till May 2002when I encouraged myself to uploadmy first recording track to mp3.com:"I steal the leaves" and later a demowith the same title and other songs.After collaborating in several projectsand decline a wealth of record deals inorder to keep the spirit of my workuntouched. I released late 2006 mydebut album "Ancient shadows" withthe help of my fans and listeners andunder my own company and labelYIDNETH (which is also the name ofmy illustrated comic book project).The project achieved severalnominations and awards and gothundreds of positive reviews inspecialized publications worldwide. Ihave performed in different countrieslike USA, UK, Germany and Spain.may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 91

The Magazine of the brief & fantasticThe visuals of our performances areinspired in worlds of wonder andfantasy, carrying away the audience toa place where Light and Shadowcollide, that mysterious place youknow from your dreams, wrapped bythe sound of heavenly vocals andancient, exotic instruments. Me andmy ensemble of musicians are lookingforward to share our magic on stagewith you so do not hesitate in contactfor booking information.http://www.yidneth.comhttp://theunderliving.comhttp://priscillahernandez.com/shophttp://youtube.com/yidnethPág. 1, 21 Ntousakis, Vaggelis(Crete, Greece) Lives and works onthe island of Crete. In 1990 he had abrief Magazine and fantasy as divingaccident and became a quadriplegic.From an early age, I am fascinatedwith anything related to the horror,the weird and strange. And spenthours together between the paintingsof Bosch, Goya and Brugel. At eleven,fell into his hands a book of terror anddiscovered Robert E. Howard, ArthurMachen, Derleth among others, buthis greatest and most striking findingwas the work of H. P. Lovecraft. In the90 studied graphic design in Athensand in 2000 returned to Crete wheredoes my business. Without leaving mypersonal projects in the digitalillustration.Pág. 18 Rubert, Evandro (Brazil,1973) Cannot remember much morethan the electric train and themountain of comics from hischildhood. Along with Sergio Abadand David Baldeón among others,Comics Otracosa founded about 15years ago, and has since been heavilyinvolved in the world of comics. Todayis Editor and Chief of Epicenter andSergio Abad teaches Bullets Comicsand Narrative at the University JaumeI of Castellón. Also painted leadfigurines and plays drums with PanicIdols.Pág. 2, 5, 7, 28 Signes Urrea,Carmen Rosa (Spain) See Writers.Pág. 93 Valenzuela, Carlos(Chile) Illustrator.http://valzonline.deviantart.com/Sobre las ilustraciones:Pág. 1 Phobia/ Vaggelis Ntousakis (Greece); Pág. 2 XI Certamen Internacional de microcuentoFantástico (póster)/ Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea (Spain); Pág. 5 Friki Frases/ Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea(Spain); Pág. 7 V Certamen Internacional Poesía Fantástica (póster)/ Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea(Spain); Pág. 17 Castch me if you can/ Javier Coscarelli (Argentina); Pág. 18 Miedo, Mentiras y TintaChina: Cotización/ Rubert (Brazil); Pág. 21 Goblin Assasin/ Vaggelis Ntousakis (Greece); Pág. 24 st/Didizuka –SEUD.− (France); Pág. 26 Cisne negro/ Miriam Ascúa (Argentina); Pág. 28 St./ Carmen RosaSignes (Spain); Pág. 31 JITE (detail) Paul Gerrard (UK);Pág. 34 Spaghetti for two/ George Acevedo(EE.UU.); Pág. 40 Ghost hands/ Ekatherina Gorelko (Russia); Pág. 43 Pesadilla/ Priscilla Hernández(Spain); Pág. 45 Laberinto/ Graciela Marta Alfonso (Argentina); Pág. 47 OVERLOOK MOTEL / TomColbie (Canada); Pág. 60 Número/ Miriam Ascúa (Argentina); Pág. 93 Sweet Dream/ CarlosValenzuela (Chile)may- june, 2013 # 126 Revista Digital miNatura 92

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