«The story is a genre that reveals the author; exposes and exhibits his way of translating the world into words. In words that, beautifully concatenated, make up a story. They tell something. I speak of the act of writing in its purest and most basic form. Understanding this truism: let everyone make balls! And therein lies the difficulty of writing a story. A story has rules. Clear rules and structure. Infinite resources. I read in a text by the almighty Flannery O'Connor that thinking of a story as something that is divided into plot, character and language is like thinking of a face as a mouth, a nose and eyes. It is not a literal quote, but it exemplifies my point. I'm talking about a story being a gesture. A gesture that can be both terror and amazement. Of pain and mercy. A gesture that drives us crazy with tenderness.

I will not quote here the lucky boxing comparison of Julio Cortázar. Instead I love what Hemingway says about a story being the tip of the iceberg. Only what peeks out. And under the water there is an unwritten mass of ice. A monstrous mass of ice. For me a story should be like when we look for the beginning (or the end) of a roll of duct tape. And we scratch and scratch the tape without realizing that we have a simply perfect object in our hands. "
—Gabriel Rodríguez Liceaga
Includes stories by: Paulette Jonguitud, Jorge Comensal, Jaime Muñoz de Baena, Alfonso López Corral, Ave Barrera, Joel Flores, Alejandro Badillo, Herson Barona, Leonardo Teja, Úrsula Fuentesberain, Eduardo Sabugal, Zoe Castell, Aniela Rodríguez, Liliana Blum, Julián Herbert, Roberto Wong.