Tales of Earth, Wind and Scales

By Ruben Zamora Equert
Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 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
26Madrecita
2Introductory Note
27Where There Are Only Rivers
3Intro
28Le Baiser De L’hôtel De Ville
4Dreaming Lives, Living Dreams
29Without becoming a rascal
5The Fly And Her
30The Silence Of His Land
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6The Sky and the Sea
31Sunset On You
7It Was One Less
32Wednesday
8A Small Beige Purse
33For A Love In Heat
9Unseparated
34Neighbors
10Beca and You
35I Will Give You All
11Microfiction I
36Breath Vapor
12Microfiction II
37Mirages
13The Bait
38The Birds Have Long Since Gone
14White Dove
39America
15Ataúlfo González
40Juan Gama
16A Home Of Four And A Half Feet
41CMFdlF23
17THE SUNDAY
42The Red One
18In The Mist
43In The Void That Links Us
19The Last Embrace
44Barely a Girl
20Remember
45Those feet
21Billie
46Am
22Without Permission
47In This Eternal Night Of Stars
23Lead
48The Tin Box
24When The Wind Ends
49The Kids
25The Castaway
50Returns
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