Pueblo chiquito

In a town you won't find on any map, where the nights seem like pockets of shadow, someone hears conversations no one else can hear and clings to a coin as though it were a lifeline. Rogelio builds a miniature world out of Lego, while Nilvia watches from her window through binoculars. Manuel rehearses speeches as if words alone could keep power intact. Juana, Pedro, Mariela and Nelson follow their familiar orbits, their routines steeped in secrets, guilt and superstition. Then a scream splits the air, and everything familiar begins to shift.

Small Town is a hypnotic short story, alive with quiet humour and the rhythms of everyday life, with a thread of mystery that skirts the psychological. Luisa Dalia González Suárez invites you to turn inward and explore the mind and the invisible pacts that bind us to others, even when we think we're walking alone. Each page urges you to face what we leave unsaid, what we invent to survive and what sooner or later brings us home.

If you're looking for short fiction with literary power and emotional resonance, this book is for you.