Tales of Earth, Wind and Scales
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Tales of Earth, Wind and Scales

By Ruben Zamora Equert
Listen with 1,000+ voices
Length4h 10m

About this audiobook

Maybe not everything in this book is for everyone, but there is something in it for each person. Because this book is more than a collection of stories. It is something different and not easy to categorize. That is precisely its greatest virtue. This anthology includes 63 carefully selected short stories that span different genres, realities, and emotions. Some are lengthy, others mere whispers. Some may seem familiar, while others may appear strange, even alien. They are brushstrokes, narrative snapshots; stories that invite us to dream but also to reflect. In these pages, all the stories share a common thread: the search for truth, beauty, and genuine emotion. It is as if the author, guiding us by the hand with a narrative voice that skillfully moves through psychological introspection and poetic description, wants to remind us that beauty and complexity are not exclusive, but are often intertwined in this intricate dance of existence, the complexity of the human soul, and the world around us. If you enjoyed stories by Juan Rulfo, Benedetti, Cortázar, Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carver, Shirley Jackson, Eloy Tizón, Lorrie Moore, Ted Chiang, John Cheever, Richard Ford, Flannery O'Connor, Clarice Lispector, Cynthia Ozick, Tobias Wolff, Italo Calvino, Hipólito Navarro, Anton Chekhov, Washington Irving, Peixoto, Valter Hugo, or Tavares, you are sure to enjoy some of these more than 60 stories where drama, magic, comedy, passion, love, and cruelty mix in genres as diverse as historical and contemporary drama, romance, science fiction, thriller, adventure, noir, and fantasy. This is not just a book, it is a literary experience and, therefore, more than the words, what truly matters is what these stories awaken in you.

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length4 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title
35I Will Give You All
2Introductory Note
36Breath Vapor
3Intro
37Mirages
4Dreaming Lives, Living Dreams
38The Birds Have Long Since Gone
5The Fly And Her
39America
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6The Sky and the Sea
40Juan Gama
7It Was One Less
41CMFdlF23
8A Small Beige Purse
42The Red One
9Unseparated
43In The Void That Links Us
10Beca and You
44Barely a Girl
11Microfiction I
45Those feet
12Microfiction II
46Am
13The Bait
47In This Eternal Night Of Stars
14White Dove
48The Tin Box
15Ataúlfo González
49The Kids
16A Home Of Four And A Half Feet
50Returns
17THE SUNDAY
51Florence
18In The Mist
52The Blessed Rope
19The Last Embrace
53The Whispering Pen
20Remember
54Los vizcaínos
21Billie
55Glances On The Sidewalk
22Without Permission
56And The Deluge Will Turn
23Lead
57The Trick
24When The Wind Ends
58Cinnamon Stick
25The Castaway
59Success 342
26Madrecita
60Always Him
27Where There Are Only Rivers
61The House Of The Birds
28Le Baiser De L’hôtel De Ville
62Nico
29Without becoming a rascal
63Jack Without A Soul
30The Silence Of His Land
64He Had Long Hair and the Body of a Woman
31Sunset On You
65To My Son
32Wednesday
66The Old man
33For A Love In Heat
67Acknowledgments
34Neighbors
68Credits

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