One afternoon, a very drunk man stumbles into a neighborhood with a cart full of stuff. Natalia leads the other girls to the bus stop as Silvia’s and Diego’s screams are heard in the distance. Natalia prays at the altar, and savage dogs appear and surround Diego and Silvia. One day, Diego suggests that they all go to the quarry's altar, but once the girls reach the altar, Diego and Silvia ditch them. One day, the girl takes Angelita to the house where her bones were displaced in order to make peace with her.Ī group of friends hangs out at a quarry pool every weekend. Angelita follows the girl everywhere but never talks. Years later, a decomposing baby appears at the girl's bedside, and the girl realizes that the baby is Angelita. Synopsis of each story Ī girl discovers small bones in her backyard, and her grandmother claims they are the bones of Angelita, the grandmother’s sister who passed away as a baby. Enriquez credits a technique of blurring the realistic and fantastic for the sinister nature of her writing. She twists Latin American mythologies, local urban legends and crimes, pagan saints, and local issues in order to integrate culture into her horror stories. Her literature is rooted in Latin America urban areas, a realistic setting she pulls from her own life. Her work has been translated into German and English and published around the globe. Her published works also include Bajar es lo peor (1995), Cómo desaparacer completamente (2004), Chicos que vuelven (2010), Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016), and Nuestra parte de noche (2019). She is currently the deputy editor of the arts and culture section of Pagina 12. Mariana Enriquez, born in 1973, is an Argentine writer and journalist located in Buenos Aires.
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