The defeat of the real is a powerful literary antidote to recover sanity. From the deserts where only the cemeteries grow to the roads sprinkled with tears of the plañideras of Nepal, these stories are built from the void, shaping worlds where emotions, cruelty, passion and irony appear naked, disjointed, transformed into accessories that, like Mr. White's Detachable Penis ™, can be resold in a flea market. The real is defeated by the imaginary and the real winner is literature.