Erick Baena Crespo knows how to portray everyday postcards with words, imbuing them with a depth that he constructs through the testimony of others, of the characters he writes about in his chronicles—some of them published in Sin Embargo—which he compiles in El relámpago y la bala (El Salario del Miedo Productions, 2022). The author emphasizes that in these texts he has sought an answer to a single question: how do you survive tragedy?