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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico swallowing it in an instant. As this is, We invite you to participate! daughter, what happens to girls who do 1 As always we want to thank all the not heed the advice of their elders . illustrators who bring their work to the Angels and Demons are messengers magazine: whose revelations unveil unspeakable Marcos DK Prieto (Spain) horror knowledge. Both creatures are jealous of the man who praise free will- Cassandra James (Australia) ironically-the work of its creator ... do Ciruelo (Argentina) demons through temptation, but even Rafa Castelló (Spain) the latter has begun to wane. Rubert (Brazil) With this issue we try to open new options to make Mike Butkus known to writers of (EE.UU.) English-speaking Komixmaster – public. SEUD.− (Colombia) The digital Virginia Kakava magazine miNatura (Greece) presents in this issue, Vurore –SEUD.− in addition to their (France) excellent stories-an interview with Neko Punch – Argentine illustrator SEUD.− (France) Ciruelo we plunge Sara Lew into the world of (Argentina) fairies and dragons Dibujante Nocturno and to bring us to the –SEUD.− (Spain) topic Who is Who dug- floating a section- for Cristina Joseph Díaz (Spain) Jurado hand where Mike Mignola Mijo Becerra (Spain) himself speaks of one of his characters Javier Charro (Spain) star: HellBoy Sacha Angel Diener (Switzerland) We also disclose the basis of V International Poetry Competition 20132 Vaggelis Ntosakis (Greece) Fantastic miNatura. Didizuka –SEUD.− (France)
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Nick Percival (UK) The project does not Piero Vianello (Italy) involve any financial commitment to the Ali Kiani Amin (Iran) author or the loss of Pascal Berger their rights, the (Belgium) translation and publication are free. Sonia Leong (UK) Applicants must submit Vicente Mateo Serra the text and a brief (Spain) resume. They will read Mauricio Herrera it and publish what they (Chile) like, there is neither subject nor extension, M. C. Carper though only published a (Argentina) story by author. Shinemaru Ayami – Project management is: SEUD.− (Spain) http://lecturesdailleurs. Graciela Alfonso blogspot.fr/ (Argentina) If you have doubts Mike Mignola about the project or wish (EE.UU.) to send from your work Pedro Belushi (Spain) and you should write to: José Gabriel Espinosa lecturesdailleurs@gma (Spain) il.com We do not want to close this editorial without give out this Los Editores information that we believe could be very interesting for all writers. The project, which involves the translation into French tales, integrates Próximo número: a team of people passionate about the translation and literature in Spanish and its main objective is to meet the authors in Europe (and even in Latin America). Alchemy
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The reason angels can fly is We must remember because they take that the devil has his themselves lightly. miracles, too. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Juan Calvino
But be warned that Millions of spiritual invoking God is only dust creatures walk the and ashes, and invoke it so earth Unseen, both strangely mingled with the when we wake and devil himself who fathered when we sleep. him. John Milton, Paradise Emily Brontë Lost
The Angels were all singing out of tune, God would not have reached the general public never without help of And hoarse with having little else to the devil. do, Jean Cocteau Excepting to wind up the sun and moon Or curb a runaway young star or two. In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. Lord Byron George Bernard Shaw
The devil looks with envy at those who suffer much and expels to heaven. That I were walking between the knots of roots Friedrich Nietzsche bone and housing of the worms.
It is not known precisely where angels For me to hear the creaking broken the dwell — whether in the air, the void, or world the planets. It has not been God's and light bite petrified of the stars, pleasure that we should be informed of to the west of my dream got up your their abode. tent, false angel. Voltaire Rafael Alberti, El ángel falso
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Interview to Ciruelo: Lord of Dreams
Entrevista: Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea Traducción: Cristina Jurado Imágenes: Ciruelo
Revista Digital miNatura: Who is Ciruelo? Ciruelo: Ciruelo is an artist aware of the importance of the arts in a society of production and consumerism.
Revista Digital miNatura: Tell us a bit about your creative process. Ciruelo: In my job as an illustrator, I work for the ideas and concepts of a client (publishing company, art director, etc.), bringing my style and artistic technique. In the last few years I fortunately have been able to work on my artistic carrier, without paying attention to other´s needs and demands, focusing on my own ideas. That means that I am freer to create. For example I can write and illustrate my own books, with the result of more convincing and creative contents.
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Revista Digital miNatura: There is a sentence from the book Cuaderno de Sueños that states: “Strangely enough, in my dreams I am never Ciruelo¨. What is the difference between the illustrator and the Ciruelo of your subconscious? Ciruelo: This sentence simply explains that in “the other realities”, where dreams develop, consciousness is not bound to one personality. It remains freed from the ego of our awaken state and that is why it generates different expectations. We are a different “I” in the dreams, which is the reason why our perceptions and actions are altered.
Revista Digital miNatura: In the same book you list the following daily tasks, including: “Greeting the sun; remembering dreams; cleaning teeth; learning to look; doing ten push-ups; eating fruits; drawing; believing; creating; watering a tree; being immortal (at least, few minutes); talking to the moon; sleeping (and dreaming).” The life of an illustration artist, engaged with his work and with family responsibilities, does it allow you to fulfill dreams like those? Ciruelo: In my case, yes. I am very fortunate to be able to live my own life style, designed by me and shaped around my family. I must add that it is possible to do it if one insists on it.
Revista Digital miNatura: What came first in Ciruelo´s life: the passion for dragons or for painting? Ciruelo: Art is first: the passion for life and for the beauty of nature. Painting and drawing are tools to help ideas and visions flow. Dragons, fairies and other characters appear in those visions and bring on stories that must be told. I have to say, though, that I don´t know where they come from. I only know that my job is to transmit what those creatures and landscapes tell me.
Revista Digital miNatura: You were born in Argentina. When and why did you decide to leave? Ciruelo: I left Argentina in 1987 because I wanted to be an illustrator of fantastic worlds and in my country; there was no market for it. Then, I enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 7
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Revista Digital miNatura: Why Sitges? Ciruelo: I found this magic village because, when I arrived, Horacio Altuna – a great comic book artist- was already living here. When I came to visit him and I discover this place, I realized that it was a small paradise.
Revista Digital miNatura: When and why was born Ciruelo, the writer? Ciruelo: Since I was little, I have been doing different artistic activities like drawing, writing and performing music. It is normal to me to express myself in one or another artistic way. I equally love all art forms.
Revista Digital miNatura: Have you make your dreams come true or are you still fighting to fulfill them? Ciruelo: In one hand, my dream was to make a living through my art and I already have achieved that. In another hand, I have many other dreams, numerous things that I want to tell and a lot of art to do. I´m afraid that the fighting to find a way to achieve all of that is still on.
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Revista Digital miNatura: Many new up-and-coming talents in the illustration world approach our publication Revista Digital miNatura. Which advice would you give them? Ciruelo: First of all, it is important for artists to be clear about their passion for the arts. After confirming their vocation, they must have a dream to pursue. Many artists feel that passion since their infancy and have clear aims which, in order to find your own path, helps. When you set your objectives in a clear manner, there is no way to fail.
To end this interview, we would like to ask you few questions with quick answers:
Lord of the Rings or Star Wars? Lord of the Rings
Omnivore or extreme vegan? Omnivore with involvement of very little number of animals.
Vampires or Fairies? Fairies.
E-book o paper book? E-books are a good answer to an urgent problem of Earth deforestation.
Which fiction character would you liked to be? Legolas.
Worst novel that you have read?
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Some novels from certain young writers that send me manuscripts to get advice. In all cases, my recommendations are always encouraging.
Best novel that you have read? La Saga de los Confines by Liliana Bodoc.
What kind of music do you listen to? All types. Just now, I´m listening to Karl Jenkins in my studio.
3D, yes or not? It doesn´t really seduce me.
Superpower? Inter-dimensional travel.
Can you share with us a dream that you had? To walk around a place full of extraterrestrial art works.
What would you take with you to a deserted island? A guitar… I can always draw in the sand with a stick.
We would like to thank you for your time and attention. It is been a pleasure to talk to you.
Ciruelo Cabral was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 20, 1963. His formal art training was limited to a few courses in drawing and advertising design, after which, at the age of 18, he immediately found work in an ad agency as an illustrator. At 21 he became a freelance illustrator and started a career as a fantasy artist. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 10
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In 1987 Ciruelo traveled to Europe and settled in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. He then embarked on a search for publishers for his "worlds of fantasy", eventually finding them in Spain, England, the United States and Germany, and through this means has reached a broad audience. Ciruelo continues to work for U.S. publishers, among them Bantam for whom he did book covers for the trilogy written by George Lucas, Chronicles of the Shadow War (see). He also has created a number of rock album covers, Steve Vai's The 7th Song and The Elusive Light and Sound being two of them (see). Other clients include Wizards of the Coast (Magic cards), TSR, Berkley, Tor, Warner, Ballantine, Heavy Metal magazine, Playboy magazine, etc. He worked with Alejandro Jodorowsky on a comic story published in France in 2006. In 1990 Ciruelo devoted eight months to designing and illustrating The Book of the Dragon to be published by the Spanish publisher Timun Más, the work proved an enormous undertaking for Ciruelo, who had interrupted his daily routine to take on a project that was destined to profit him only in the long term. Foreign rights to The Book of the Dragon were sold to Paper Tiger, London, in 1992, who had also published his first artbook: Ciruelo, in 1990. In 1997 the book Luz, the Art of Ciruelo came out. This third book features over 160 full color illustrations, a number of pencil sketches and ink drawings laid out in 128 pages. In the year 2000 his fourth artbook Magia, the Ciruelo Sketchbook was published. In 2006 a special little book came out: Cuaderno de Viajes de Ciruelo, Notebooks. His new book: Fairies and Dragons, has just been published in 2008, it features many illustrations accompanied by a story written by himself. He lives with his wife Daniela and their kids, Angelo and Lys in Sitges, a quaint and magical town near Barcelona, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Summary: Enrique Saldivar (Peru) 1/ Portada: Insurrección por 19/ Spiritual dispute/ Patricia O. Marcos DK Prieto (Spain) (Patokata) –SEUD.- (Uruguay) 2/ Editorial 19/ Storm/ Sara Lew (Argentina) 5/ Friki Frases 20/ The Divine Trinity/ Iván Payano (Dominican Repúblic) 6/ interview: Entrevista a Ciruelo: El Amo de los Sueños/ 21/ Semyaza/ Tomás Pacheco Carmen Rosa Signes U. (Spain) Estrada (Mexico) 12/ Poster: St/ Rafa Castelló 21/ Mistranslation/ Pablo (Spain) Martínez Burkett (Argentina) 13/ Summary 22/ Cambion/ Cristina Jurado (Spain) 13/ Miedo, Mentiras t Tinta China: Demonios y más 23/ It debates/ Omar Martínez Demonios/ Rubert (Brasil) (Cuba) 17/ The Angel of Death / Ana 24/ A story hard to swallow/ María Shua (Argentina) Adam Gai (Israel) 17/ The gender of angels / Juan 24/ Simulacrum/ María José Pablo Noroña Lamas (Cuba) Madarnás (Venezuela) 18/ Celestial dream/ Carlos 25/ Angy/ Paloma Hidalgo Díez (Spain)
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26/ The Angel/ Juan Antonio 32/ Clandestine/ Carmen Rosa Díaz Carrión (Chile) Signes Urrea (Spain) 27/ Broken wings of lives off/ 33/ The plage/ Ariel Carlos Vicente Arturo Pichardo (Colombia) (Dominican Republic) 33/ The last life/ Luisjavier 27/ UniOn/ Carlos Enrique Osorio –SEUD.- (Mexico) Saldivar (Peru) 33/ Realism in its purest state/ 28/ Poem incomplete or Sara Lew (Argentina) conversation with a girl dressed 34/ The Sofia’s soul/ Mª del completely/ Ricardo Acevedo Socorro Candelaria Zarate Esplugas (Cuba) (Mexico) 28/ The irresistible cry/ Ana 35/ Now you are alone/ Pere J. María Shua (Argentina) Martínez Marqués (España) 29/ Paradise/ Rui Caverta 35/ The Fall/ Raisa Pimentel (México) (Dominican Repúblic) 29/ Own hand/ Juan Guinot 36/ Wrestling with the Angel/ (Argentina) Ana María Shua (Argentina) 30/ Angel Temptation/ Rodolfo 36/ Guardian Angel/ Sara Lew Báez (Dominican Republic) (Argentina) 31/ Ad delendum universam 37/ Dreams, madness, and carnem/ Salomé Guadalupe delirium at midnight/ Rafael J. Ingelmo (Spain) Sánchez Rivera (Spain) 31/ /The special day/ Omar 37/ Your call is important for us/ Martínez (Cuba)
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Martín Andrés Hain (Argentina) 45/ Hell/ Rui Caverta (Mexico) 38/ Duality through the looking 45/ Punishment/ Ricardo glass/ Odilius Vlak –SEUD.- Manzanaro (Spain) (Dominican Republic) 45/ Mutual punishment angels or 39/ The Riders of Remembrance/ demons/ Texy Cruz (Spain) Antonio Mora Vélez (Colombia) 46/Tergum Verto/ Pedro Román 40/ Rabbi Versus Angel/ Ana (Spain) María Shua (Argentina) 47/ The fallen/ Carlos Díez 41/ Águilas Blancas/ Violeta (Spain) Balián (Argentina) 47/ Angel in the Ring/ Ana 42/ Nature of Angels/ Mary María Shua (Argentina) Paniagua (Dominican Republic) 48/ I’m not afraid/ Egoitz 43/ A path to the hell/ Jorge Laparra (Spain) Zarco Rodríguez (Spain) 48/ Nuisance/ Ricardo Cortés 44/ Living in the clouds/ Lucila Pape (Spain) Guzmán (Argentina) 49/ Sputnik/ Rui Caverta 45/ Rumors/ Ana María Shua (Mexico) (Argentina) 50/ The New Angel/ Fabián
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Daniel Leuzzi (Argentina) A dispute among the angels and 51/ The passanger/ Gorka demons/ Mª del Socorro Moreno (Spain) Candelaria Zarate (Mexico) 52/ A Marvel of flyng Poetry/ 64/ La Biblioteca del Ana María Shua (Argentina) Nostromo: Necronomicón; Penumbria; TerBi; Metropía; 52/ In the beginning/ María José Agujero Negro; El Buque Gil Benedicto, (Spain) Maldito; El expediente Glasser 53/Tales of Hemicycles: The (Dunken); El rompecabezas de Wanderer/ Graciela Marta Estambul (Factoría de Ideas); Alfonso (Argentina) Breithz: La leyenda 53/ The Taming/ de Leureley II Federico Miguel (Kelonia); El legado Aldunate de Tesla (Factoría (Argentina) de Ideas); 2099 Antología de 54/ The Dragon/ Ciencia Ficción Ana María Shua (Irreverentes); Todo (Argentina) lo que dejamos 55/ Eternal fight/ atrás (79/59 Francesc Barrio Ediciones); El Fin Julio (Spain) del Mundo. Manual 56/ Patrol/ Ricardo de Uso; Allwënn: Cortés Pape (Spain) Soul & Sword. 56/ The Bet/ Sissy Pantelis 76/ About the Authors and (Greece) illustrators 58/ Poster: The Bet/ Didizuka - 100/ About the Illustrations seud.- (France) 101/ Back Cover: Ángeles y 59/ Who is Who: Hellboy: Demonios por José Gabriel Espinosa (Spain) Demon goes good/ Cristina Jurado (Spain) 62/ Article: The Gospel of Jesus Christ: enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 16
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and sealed, why or for what purpose did The Angel of the Angel pause to have a vain argument? Death3 And Someone responds: it was so that The Lord of the Mansion has sent me this story could be told. to you: I am the Destroyer of Joys and He Who Disperses All Gatherings. Ana María Shua (Argentina) Thus spoke Azrael, the Angel of Death, The gender of angels to the unlucky king. Regarding the matter of the gender of The king then begged for one more day, to return the stolen riches he kept angels, there’s a story from the life of beatus Timotheos. in his treasury, and not to have this debit There was an charged to the occasion when Friar account of his evil Heraclius and hermit works. But the Syriacus debated this Angel announced, thorny issue. The with frightening monk affirmed that voice, that the days celestial creatures of his life were were male, whereas numbered and his the cenobite breaths counted and sustained their his moments written female condition. down. And the king They were in the then asked for just presence of beatus one more hour: and Timotheos, who was even this hour, said at the time sightless. the Angel, was Rumor has it God already included in the accounting, and had blinded him to stop his vast his fate was written and must be knowledge from growing even more, fulfilled in that instant. And the Angel thus keeping him from the temptations took the king’s soul and the king rolled of vanity. off his throne and fell dead. After hours of disagreement, the And behold men wonder: if the exact polemists requested wise Timotheos instant of his death was written, signed take on the matter. He sighed, and spoke:
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Syriacus and Heraclius begged him so stream that becomes a river, stream that much that the scholar told his reasons flows into an ocean, sea which creates for silence. waves, which grow up to the sky. Nude —I recently witnessed an occurrence and pleased reached the magnificence that leaves no doubt about the sex of of God's work, I receive illustrious angles. But that is a secret knowledge, characters, outstanding lead me to the banned for mankind; therefore, by the entrance. My feet float above a floor act of revealing it to me, my sight fell like cotton, mischievous cherubs rest on into wrongdoing. So I was punished my legs, then gently fired. Dazzling with blindness. I fear that if I now females approach me and fill me with disclose this truth, you’ll be rendered kisses, everyone wants to take me with deaf, for God punishes such a sin with her, however I choose the more timid, loss of the sinful body part. the brightest, I rise, taking her hand, and walk the vast city, the main The monk and the hermit, anxious to between seven hundred seventy-seven. increase their learning of things divine, Structures lavish, blue, celestial blue pressed the matter further. After much and white recreate the view, houses begging, they convinced the wise man made of glass, spectacular beings to give them half a truth, for it was all enjoying multitude of pleasures; taste they needed to deduct the rest, by way delicacies, makes all kinds of games. of using the reason and understanding My companion is close to me, gives me the Lord had given them. Timotheos smiled, and said unto them: —All right then. But heed me well, for only once I’ll say the gender of angels is opposite to that of demons. Rumor has it Heraclius and Syriacus became insane shortly afterwards. Juan Pablo Noroña Lamas (Cuba) Celestial dream Sparkling creek that bathes my lovely tanned body, hence my wings indestructible waterproof reflect light coming from different parts of the surrounding space, like a musical scale; exquisite melodies caress my ears and I encourage browsing on exciting liquid enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 18
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shining. Angels disappear and go up to move to both groups equally, the the clouds again, hoping to get up to baritone Juan Cruz. An average-looking their old tricks. man but his melodious voice had been Sara Lew (Argentina) exalted to heavenly and the hellish admire. Some claimed that since no one The Divine Trinity had come Paganini possess that magical gift. A heap of light stopped on a mound of For forty days the earth was hit by black sand on a desert island. In an blazing fire coming out of the ground. instant both substances began forming All existing volcanoes and some several groups. They were angels and created ad hoc spit lava plains distorted demons, which developed a semicircle and filled cities. Only the baritone (for to talk. They understood separately had which exclusive, time had been not been achieved by channeling the arrested) remained in her dressing room man neither roads. Neither the good nor at the theater, a building of the century. evil. The man had come to believe all Eventually the plan was executed with creation business. great skill. Only chosen survived and Eventually agreement was reached to was elevated to a place in the center of satisfy both groups of humans would be the world where the plants began to exiled from the face of the planet but a grow exponentially. And they saw the man would take the role of Adam and celestial beings that should not be alone start all over again. The weight to be and unfounded got great slumber to renewable weighed on humans. They begin the process of creating a chose the only person who was able to companion for him. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 20
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While waiting space beings on the daughters of men, they must be blonde darkside of the moon, and the table talk and blue-eyed to produce children. theme again was that the snake would Then the top leader spoke with a teach how to master the mind of women booming voice. and thus repeat the cycle. I am afraid the only culprit in this Iván Payano (Dominican Repúblic) deed, and I solely responsible for this Semyaza sin. Other respondents heavenly angels The angel Semyaza was with his wife raising their hands in unison. in bed, sleeping man's daughter, -Let us all pledge an oath and under Semyaza got up from the bed, spread anathema to not back this plan but to his wings and huge translucent blue really. fluorescence emitted a blue glow. The blue-eyed blonde immortal turned his All down the accursed swore Mount head to look at the human, had pregnant Hermon. Semyaza growing belly in the belly of the female grew a looked like his wife came over time nephilim. Semyaza remember when I during delivery and that the blue-eyed was in heaven and had under him blonde heartbreaking cried before dying several angels, but he fell in love with a while giving birth to a giant. Semyaza daughter of man, wanted to possess her, wept disconsolate over the loss of his one day Azazel discovered the passion beloved that he no longer cared that tormented his Chief Angelic, the punishment for the consequences of warlike angel with black wings and their acts. Azazel taught men to war carrying weapons of war had told him and wealth. that a troop of Tomás Pacheco Estrada (México) heavenly angels who Mistranslation wanted to have intercourse How art thou fallen from with the heaven, O you morning star, son of the dawn! How art thou cut daughters of down to the ground, which didst men, all met weaken the nations! and agreed with Azazel. Isaiah 14:12 -We will History has not been choose very sufficiently stringent with the beautiful bloody adventures of the women and "Society for Research and beautiful of the Training in German Ancestral enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 21
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Heritage", the scientific unit created condition as a winged-being. Strictly to rescue the origins of the Aryan race. speaking, a mono-winged creature; the Its members, enthusiastic individuals of other appendage appeared to have been oscillating mental stability and lacked sliced off at the base and not by the professionalism, devoted their efforts to industrious course of ages but by the conduct extravagant experiments, quite sculptor´s own chisel. As it stood, the often fatal ones. Some chronicles wryly effigy´s nobility was somewhat altered evoke failed expeditions to Tibet and by this detail which if deliberate was no the North African desert. less disturbing. In this instance, an Afrika Korps The war was unfavorable. It was said officer thought he recognized a runic a British blast buried the whole alphabet carved in stone. The leaders of excavation. Others affirmed it was the Ahnenerbe stealthy sent over a blown up by the Nazis themselves contingent of linguists. After reviewing enraged after hearing that scrupulous the inscriptions, they presaged a very readings concluded the cuneiform important finding. It certainly was a characters were a form of earliest huge discovery albeit most abnormal Hebrew. They were so angered by the for as it turned out. From under many revelation as well as by the example of tons of sand emerged a colossal statue degenerate art in their hands, thus no instead of the prophesied Viking city. one paid attention to the fatal warning The human-shaped giant showed hidden at the foot of the statue: "Behold angular features, a hooded head, an Michael, defeated commander of elaborately-carved breastplate and heavenly militia. Generations will hands that rested on profess otherwise, but I, the hilt of the sword. Shaytan, who was created All of these features from smokeless fire, killed suggested a mythical him once and forever. " warrior of unknown Pablo Martínez Burkett lineage. However, the (Spain) obsequious chieftains of the NSDAP Party Cambion5 rushed to authenticate the image as that of I was never the most an ancient Germanic beautiful, not the most god. The frenzy that celebrated of the land, but followed was he chose me and I advanced and welcomed the lure of his accredited by the absence of any analogy with the 5 A half-human offspring of a demon and a human Egyptian canons, but especially for its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambion enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 22
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico bitter breath. His desirable body exuded sensuality, scented with sulfur and It debates sweat. I gave myself to that ardent The unconscious intent of being taken creature, seduced and intrigued by his out the ties made it return in yes. promises of an eternity in passionate He/she was very near a steep cliff, in submission. the periphery of the forest; and in that Each embrace felt like a free falling; moment it perceived the hoarse voice: each kiss matched the discharge of a —I cannot continue allowing your hundred storms; each intercourse was a constant he/she helps other men. When, feverish dance over volcanic charcoals. they will suffer. For what reason, I I never quite understood how his make an effort converting the well in boiling skin could leave my spine so bad. cold and my stomach so full of dark —But it should not be this way emptiness. Despite de pain and the Belial… burns, his absences were unbearable. I found the reason of my existence in his —Ah! You even know my name, you words and in our magmatic love. To know who I am and you don't fear me. I me, the rest just seemed unimportant or am a demon… futile. —And I am an angel! —it was He left the first night that I vomited, listened from above— God sent me to weakened by the new presence in my liberate it. My group of choirs is the belly. As soon as he saw my back one in charge of protecting the humans. bended by the nausea, he guessed my —Because I have come from the Hell condition. My calling did not stop him to make it to suffer and to finish with from leaving; my plea did not convince their life. him to stay. I spent the nine months While angel and demon debated, the waiting for his return, guarded by prisoner was able to loose the strings shadows as it was his custom, but the that you/they tied it and he got the night never brought him back to my attention of both: door. —I return to my world! Some from I was used to the ulcers that I got there we came to offer help; but if the when our skins touched, so the delivery deities created by the men don't achieve was almost painless. The midwife could their own understanding, then… not admire for long my newborn´s beautiful horns. She only had time to They didn't listen more; angel and make the sign of the cross before the demon were astonished in view of a baby pierced her heart with the sharp sheaf of light that went away. tip of his tale. Omar Martínez (Cuba) Cristina Jurado (Spain) enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 23
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will glorify him. At that very moment A story hard to he heard Mary’s weep, a Moor’s curse swallow and a verse from the Song of the Songs. Drunk of holiness, Charlemagne left for Once upon a time, while in bed with Bizantium where he was lavishly his wife, Charlemagne heard her saying received by the Emperor who in her dreams that a monarch powerful unexpectedly knelt in front of his guest. than him rules over Bizantium. Like a Returning home, the queen and his bat out of hell, the King of the Franks subjects, were waiting for Charlemagne got dressed, girded on his sword and at the palace’s gates. He arrived, halted traveled to Constantinople to meet him. his horse, took the relics out of the Yet our traveler, driven by his firm saddlebags, and then in the middle of devotion though not less than by his startled silence he poured the emptiness own interests, was impelled to come to of the chalice over the whole empire. Jerusalem first. Here, an angel dressed Adam Gai (Israel) in red tunic guided him to the Holy Sepulchre. From Our Saviours’ opened Simulacrum tomb he rescued a crown of thorns, a nail, as well as a chalice which by I'm a night being. Despicable and miracle kept several drops from the dark, but beautiful. I'm a brilliant blend Last Supper’s wine. The angel told of perfection and cruelty. I feed on Charlemagne that drinking the wine feelings, juicy and sweet feelings of
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico poor gullible ones falling yielded to my Do not kid yourself my friend, heaven charms. does not exist; we have fun at your My way: the one you prefer. I am expense seeing how you call us angels. what your eyes want to see. What I Now, dear, you can stop squirming in enjoy most is the selective blindness of pain and die in peace, I have nothing those obsessed with love. Those are the else to rip off, faith was all you had left. most fun when it comes to crush them. María José Madarnás (Venezuela) The more they love me, the more I entertain myself leaving them with Angy nothing but a cold emptiness when December 20, 2012. His frozen face they're deprived of my attentions. stares me behind the counter of They generally commit suicide. For infectious roadside motel. His gaze me it is a great show. You see them indolent runs through my body with there, weeping bitterly, thinking a nothing expected calm. thousand times about the reasons why I - Would you like a room? -Asked left them, with those big swollen eyes, without removing the cigarette from the and their faces buried between their corner of his mouth. knees. What a pathetic sight! They are just simple and disgusting creatures -No. My short answer gets his unable to be whole beings; nasty attention. parasites, worthless spongers who carry —Well, if you don’t want to register, the burden of their happiness in others. what the hell have you come here? I They deserve their pain, they deserve to like that arrogance around him; I be stripped of everything, and I enjoy recognize that without resistance on his slowly tearing off their souls without part, it would be a very boring job. any mercy; that is my forte. I start slowly to unzip the red leather You are nothing but our toys. We jacket; I want him to think that I have hung up medals every time we make no other clothes. I know how he is you collapse. It is delightful to see the because my mother has described him way the last gasp of life runs away from to me perfectly, and I know that he the pale dying lips of someone who likes it a lot; well, at least he liked to have chosen to die. It is wonderful to rage when they lived together. Now, he see how the despair invades you, and is even closer to the counter. He tells the way you throw yourselves to the me to continue. After the show, he most bloody and heartbreaking deaths promises to give me a reward while you wonder how you’ve suffered according to my work so much, writhing in agony and The jacket falls at my feet, his eyes begging for an answer. devouring me. - Do not remember me, right? I say. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 25
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He's out from behind the counter and that, for good behavior, those above looks terrified because he has no have left me go down to see my father. answer. Once my wings are free from the Maybe he’s thinking I come to steal pressure, I can flap them. They do their the fruit of years of work away from the best. My time expires, I just hope I can home that one day, he left behind in put in his portfolio the number of my another continent. I was just a girl the little sister, she is the rightful heir. She last time he saw me. Furthermore, I didn't die like me, engulfed by the should be dead. 20 years ago, he set fire flames that horrible day. to the room where my mother, my sister Since I became her guardian angel, I and I were sleeping. I should have said had been waiting for this moment. Besides, I always wanted to give my mother a Christmas gift as good as she deserved. She only knew the hardships of life in the company of a man who never respected her life... I go outside; it's cold, a lot. I climb the zipper of my jacket and start walking along the shoulder, while in the distance, stands reflective of red lights in the fog. Paloma Hidalgo Díez (España) The Angel The angel went for a walk in a dry soil of some desert with his thin and elongated head. His small, dilated and watery eyes, looked the horizon next to the perfume of carrion into his nasal ducts. His sweat dripped for his centered cheekbones and the rough tail that it didn’t stop to hit the floor in his walking. One day tired to walk, he stopped to rest under the shadow of an abandoned automobile. In the car, he found a mirror. He took that mirror and at the moment he looked at himself, the Angel died. Juan Antonio Díaz Carrión (Chile) enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 26
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because they were very young and Broken wings of crazy. He saw her by first time through an open space, a strange light powered lives off6 energy. She was beautiful, of dark The angel fell down. Not explain why complexion, wavy hair and wings their wings stopped moving, and his shone through the line. She also liked skin changed color as traffic light. him, it looked at her constant smiles, purple, silver, sea ... Others also fell, she did not care that the young man had and found each other. At first, they red skin, horns and a huge, thick tail. didn’t think about the problem, Every time they looked rose into the air however, when they began to feel pain, and trying to be achieved. Remained worried about it. They agreed that the long observed, months, years, could not trip to the sun, affected by the chase, in hear the words of another, but battle, in the space of the universe, to developed a language that was only the demon AC1231 (Prince). The them, which were encouraged to dream analysis resulted did was contagious of the day that could be touched and and they would die. The cure was a love. Over time he began to feel a type of blood almost extinct, and the strong heat gnawing gut. She began to characteristics of the human genome, feel cold, which came over his delicate deleted. The heavenly data bank heart. They were born in different resulted someone in there with that lands, but they were certain that they blood type. But this one leads an army joined a previous life, shared in a place against them, in fact, they’ll have to go even more sinister than those from to the center of Hell for sampling. They which they came. The energy have their heads bent down, because surrounding the mighty wall that although a good number, they will have separated their bodies kept them alive. to take the sample from the father of At the same time, this barrier prevented AC1231, no other way, they don’t want them realize their happiness. One day, to die. when they were about to explode and Vicente Arturo Pichardo (República die penalty due to their cruel fate, there Dominicana) was a cataclysm on the wall were a few folds. They could hold hands. And the UniOn unthinkable happened, something that had not ever happened in the History of They met in the confines of their Time: the heat of the male was respective worlds. Their superiors had attenuated cold thanks to the female, ordered them that never will enter the and she felt the warmth of her consort, limits, but they ignored the warnings which quickened her. The drag force caught them both and led to an 6 Translator Freddys Moretta (Dominican Republic) unexpected place beyond the confines enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 27
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shouted the leader appeared rifles and camouflage Angels taken in response hostages and crucified the Mayor (Gregorian chanting) TV appeared Satellites and tele-photo lenses shots were fired at the Vatican national mourning voting for or against miraculous cures porn Movie and long documentaries of this reality. They thought they would angels (now drunk) die, but were together, that comforted covenants discussed forgotten them. They woke up naked and (and a certain Jehovah) lacerated, on a cold, hard floor. Their bodies had changed. They looked ……………………………. around, holding their hands, and ……………………………. understood what had happened. Crying, 7 …………………………… hugged and kissed, were covered with what they could and began their Ricardo Acevedo Esplugas (Cuba) journey into the world uncertain and 8 more dangerous of the universe: the The irresistible cry human. The cry of the Exterminating Angel is Carlos Enrique Saldivar (Peru) so shrill and frightening that no one can resist it. Two young men tried to resist Poem incomplete or it using Ulysses method, with wax in their ears, but the cry penetrated the conversation with a other orifices of their bodies, making
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico them explode. An old woman tried to She says she killed the rapist to resist it by seeking refuge in her senile save. Shows how. Wield a indifference, but the cry destroyed her knife invisible veins swollen right indifference, did away with her senility, hand,pushes the arm forward, leads and and the old woman died converted into brings twenty times. an intense twenty-three year old. The Commissioner comes forward, bend Exterminating Angel himself tried to your knees, fingers fit on the resist it and lost almost all the feathers body, stuck to the floor, push, from his wings, and lost his wrath and rotate achieved. The dead is belly his voice and forever lost his desire to up, no one stab wound of. Frustrated, h cry out and ever since then the e demands the girl to sayhow he was Apocalypse is impossible. killed and she repeated the gesture with Ana María Shua (Argentina) his hand. Rejoins, makes a visual tour of the Paradise temple and finds twelve women, come Steps away from collapse, from an adjoining room. He passes the bare bones, Above the heads fail to see that in the next room there are six male The putrid flesh, bodies lying on the floor. Makesfour The scavengers crunching femurs steps backward. Women go with the The flies laying eggs in the dying girl, the surrounding, passing his hands one’s cheeks, over the contoursof the body, such as touching, but without doing so. The great palm trees, The thirteen women raise their The freshly bloomed fruit, arms and clenched fists up. The And the sand wallowing in the feet, corpse on the floor gives spasms, isoff It’s Paradise the ground, floats in the air and falls to the ground, adding to the six But men is at war. bodies. From the tip of the Rui Caverta (México) thirteen fists, those hands up, fire and flame springs are twisted until the next Own hand room, where the dead men, burned. Commissioner bursts into the temple Female voices murmur "Justice". and finds a Commissioner cautiously back, turns girl with tattered blouse, topless. Lying around, walks toward the exit of the on the floor, lies the body of a temple, without looking back, where type, face down and ass in the air. the fire consumed his shadow. Juan Guinot (Argentina) enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 29
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not flinch, and continued to fall as Angel naturally (now by the narrow path leading to the river). Leaving the water Temptation the young man rubbed his hands and felt the weight of those juicy fruits in The white and bare breasts of women the crotch. trembled every time a step down. There were no From wet hips words when they fell sticky were facing each enveloping other. The youthful sensuality zest spared no icy everything in its eyes who seduced path. It was a him and led both sight not for by instinct allowed heart. Small and claims in his arms sharp mountains wrap. When she invited the weary felt her kiss her eyes to sink into mouth was an its craters, while insatiable tomb that the plain below sucked. the abdomen, two Disappeared seemed suddenly gasps and exaggerated erection busting curves away to you skin. Without form a cavity to knowing how it collect all eyes. was found floating in a small planet, On the bank of twilight zone, the river, the boy looked at her with where he barely fit, if it stopped orbit. eyes constantly growing. Helplessly, Midnight riverside, woman or like someone throws a stone, shot a kiss whatever, and the erection had that was to cosquillarle intimacies. His disappeared, and instead the sun burned image was compacted further, like hell. I panicked disconcerting absorbing every bit of masculinity. On sound of a huge chain of cans that look the ladder slipped a chill up shake the askance at it thought it had its own life boy as a thunderous earthquake. In the and intended to exterminate all that fall dark night the only sound was the in that area of the devil. beating of his heart accelerated where blood uproar caused the dead to life. Rodolfo Báez (República Dominicana) However revolutions, the spectrum did enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 30
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against the other. Both have been an Ad delendum eternity in the business; they probably universam carnem could not live without each other. −If you really trust in their good sense, He who forgives everything must have prove it. I propose a gambling. forgiven himself everything −But I made a deal. I promised Noah.... Antonio Porchia −You still cling to your old beliefs ... The “The cold will be over tonight” −she world has changed −he smiles, knowing avoids the farewell kiss−. But the black that his time has finally come. spot on his forearm says otherwise. As Choose who you want, the most righteous soon as he walks out the door, she dials the among them, he said… I did my best to number on screen since the terrible protect them. I placed the box in one of epidemic began. “The situation has gotten those Swiss banks so discreet ... While the out of hand”, she murmurs. Like almost lift car rises he avoids looking down; everyone she suspects that this global remorse terrifies him. Nevertheless he is no pandemic has been caused by a virus longer inflexible as he was in the early created in a laboratory, a chemical weapon. days. The centuries have taught him to be Alerted by the noise, as nobody replies lenient with errors: soon, in his him, he decides to enter. The customer is imagination, he begins to shape them on the floor, dead but smiling. It is not again... surprising, he says to himself: on the table, Salomé Guadalupe Ingelmo (Spain) money, diamonds, gold bars ... And a throne-shaped clay box, antique and irresistible. On one side is represented Eve The special day offering an apple. On the other emerges A special day, that dawned in total Pandora. Cherubs have been carved on the silence. All prayed so that the one remaining sides. spawns of The Sacred Deity it lapsed in He just wants to browse a bit, to take a harmony and concord. A hundred brief look at the box contents. The lid fits sanctified eggs would keep for one tightly... To his surprise, inside there is week the life of the new members of nothing. The dweller has fled precipitately; the Beatific Court that it would too long locked inside. That has made him substitute to the current one to guide even angrier and more virulent: he wants during the following five thousand revenge. The Angel of Death recalls his years the development of the life in the first mission, that one in Egypt ... The old anecdote will seems a joke compared to distant and small planet. what is approaching. But not everything was peace. Nine It seems that, inside the elevator hanging demons waited hidden; with the hieratic in the air −impossible to decide whether it and damned disposition of giving death, is going up or down−, two mature and in the precise instant, to the sainted elegant men are pitting one's strength beings; alone that, as always, they enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 31
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico passed for high the existence of a legion witnessed that transformation that of angels that invariably took the marked external connection to the high, initiative to give the attack order, and to the fellowship of His Holiness the impede in that way that the vile demons divismo they differed and that almost achieved their objective. makes her vomit. The success was The battle got rid while all prayed. It based on compassion that he woke up, was hard and difficult, both groups and it was. With his words he sealed the fought with total he/she surrenders. But first of his triumphs. when breaking the shell of the first egg ―Do not be fooled, you're beautiful it was already sure the peace of the ―said lying to the verb. distant and small planet for next fifty When her hands contonearon the torso centuries. and then draw on their breasts and Omar Martínez (Cuba) invisible infinite imperfect circles, his victory was confirmed. Indescribable Clandestine feeling that filled her with joy. The exchange was mutual, shared pleasure. Nowhere was it written that perfection The light and darkness, visible traces of is essential, it will damage the the encounter, leaving clues to his credibility his repulsive appearance so origin fantastic. No one would have far from its congeners. He had a lot to guessed it that low passion and prove, had questioned his physique, commitment, not in it much holiness. taunting her too. He defended his worth Surprised at the softness of those to the skeptics, to herself in the mirror feathers, lost his way and drifted. His when he watched his imperfections and scaly skin softened with every stroke. flaws, its ugliness. Yes, he had been Accustomed to the unfairly disparaged. glamor out of their Bowed to the will of perverted arts, her his opponent, now image was grotesque knew that I wanted to and unheard posed the change and that desire nonsense out to led to the unexpected. conquer and flirtation. The appendices Crouching waited. No imperfect out of his suspect interference, back air soft charged the nude body particles stinging. exposing her back appendices that filled Carmen Rosa U. Signes the air with light and (Spain) soft particles. He enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 32
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Instantly his body shone and displayed The plague great wings of white feathers. I checked for the third time the charge I pulled out the gun and fired a full from my Ruger LC9 regular, but had charge. At my feet lay disgusting thing, three years with special task force kept they appealed to our memories and confront those things worry me, good feelings, the other to our lower although scientists say things did not desires, but they were the same species stop to explain that they were living of parasites feeding on our emotions. beings, like us, mortal, like us, except Ariel Carlos Delgado (Colombia) that belonging to a different dimensional plane. At first, when the The last life news became known, was a worldwide culture shock, many sociology and The brigness of that robe made her psychology experts criticized the rise her head. The angel who appeared United Nations made known to the knelt and began to stroke her hair. They public the discovery, but took refuge in stared at each other for a moment. The the damage caused worldwide. Many of woman closed her eyes and the last life the most irrational acts committed by on eart was finally scythed. humans is now explained in the light of Luisjavier Osorio –seud.- (México) this finding. He was in a park opposite the pond, Realism in its feeding the ducks seemed a kind of 9 harmless looking old lady. I purest state approached; a cold sweat covered my The candlelight had a blaze going in forehead. the dark as it gave the stick of its light -We know your true identity, do not to other unlit candles that delimited the try to escape or make sudden room. The altar where the sacrifice movements. would take place was in the middle of it. Everything was ready for the He looked as if he doesn’t understand, shooting. According to the director's that really bothered me, I took the small signal, actors raised the dagger with a device from his pocket and flipped. ritual gesture and a black shadow Instantly the kind old lady once twisted appeared terrorizing them, rushing upon and changed shape before my eyes, for them until their screams were drowned a moment I saw his true appearance, an in a blood stream. Lord of Evil was image that always caused me chills. Now had the form of my younger sister, who had died five years now. 9 -She misses you, I can make you talk Traducción: Sandra Montelpare (Argentina) to her again. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 33
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico never missing when he was called for a Joaquin followed them with the aim of horror film. trying to defend to Sofia from the man Sara Lew (Argentina) who had assaulted her and when he push down the shoulder of that man, he The sofia’s soul realized that he was in the same plane as him, just on the opposite side, was a Since Joaquin had died in that terrible demon. In reaction, the man pushed car accident, the Sofia’s world had Sofia to the floor and she lost the changed. They were about to get consciousness. The two men clashed married in a few weeks, and all of their leaving the earthly plane as an angel plans were turned in ashes, as Joaquin's and a devil began to argue. body to blow after blow in his car that —Leave the woman alone, you're day. killing her, - said the angel. Sofia began drinking more than usual, —To you that you care, is a prostitute stopped working and her life foundered. and my boss wants her soul soon. After ten months of that terrible incident, Joaquin was already on a — I'll give you my soul instead of higher plane, he became in one Angel hers, - Joaquín said. and with the assignment for doing good - Stupid! Scornfully replied the demon on earth, he met head to head with his he likes women, not mannered bastards beloved who had turned in prostitute like you. and dedicated to satisfy her cocaine —Your boss earns more with the soul addiction, she offered her services to of an angel than with soul of a simple Joaquin. Saddened by the fate of his mortal. beloved, he watched a man that took strong from her arms and with curses, — This is your lucky day my little blows and shoving took her into an angel. Do you want to have fun today? alley. said the devil
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—Let's play a poker game. If I win the Lucifer didn´t believe, its favorite with woman is for my boss, if I lose, the confidence, who saw the mistake of this woman is yours. act, the humankind would follow own Sitting at the table of a bar with a one laws if it would grant that option. And poker card at the table, Joaquin have that was how it was. agreed surrender his soul in exchange All the divine laws imposed to these for his beloved Sophia. creatures, didn´t be useful against their Ma. del Socorro Candelaria Zárate curiosity…and they discovered that (México) their fate was unwritten. God turned mad. Now you are alone War blew out, devastating dimensions at least sensed by you, and for each The night watch magistrate came into victory a defeat followed it. The the bedroom and, despite a contingent Creation is collapsing and you, of policeman, the scene seemed him humans, barely notice, for each quietly. The corpses of two males, decision took by you, there was a fight, young, Caucasian, without a hair always under behind the shadows of sample, lay quietly on the bed with a your acts. The war is over, and now you white silk sheet until the chest. A police are alone. Act cautiously.” officer held to him a handwritten note with a beautiful calligraphy inside an When he finished the reading, the evidence bag. newbie forensic attracted his attention while she was holding up the silk sheet. “The Mankind’s God doesn´t exist Her face had a confusion expression. anymore. Neither is a fallen angel who Without discovering the corpses, she guards the underworld’s circles. These invited him to take a peek. The bodies found here, once belong to the magister had to blink several times, last survivors of the most brutal war in before he accepted that the bodies the Cosmos. didn´t have sex on their groin. Once we were Miguel, Captain of the Pere J. Martínez Marqués (Spain) Heavenly Hosts, and Azazel, Commander of the Grigori and Valid of Satan; once we were enemies. The Fall When free will was granted by the The creature came out of the bowels Universe’s Creator to the most of the light. He squirmed for a moment. malicious of its creatures, it triggered His wings were spread and awkwardly chaos in the Creation. The Almighty took off from the ground and floated in trusted in its creature’s choice was it; front of its creator. It was beautiful. His they would choose to comply with the delicate and bright skin let out flashes will that reigns in the cosmic order. that lit the space. He scanned slowly the enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 35
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico being while it was asleep, and was cursed and the extent of your sentence pleased with his creation. will be eternity. You were one with God saw it was good and said - humans and gave them reason. Now "You’re a light bearer, therefore, shall they think and want to be like us, higher be called Lucifer. You're one of my and eternal; their minds evolved with custodians on earth and you'll be in their bodies and now they want power, charge of a third of my Angels"-. he said. They want to be like you, I replied. … Raisa Pimentel (Dominican Republic) You should not join the men, he said. But it happened, I answered. I Walked Wrestling the earth for a thousand days and a with the thousand nights depending on the time Angel10 from the sun. I What a disgrace to watched them fulfill think you’ve wrestled their life cycle. The with the Angel and to land vomited them by discover, looking at hundreds, thousands, the corpse, that maybe, and after you’ve just beaten a formed they mugger. For this multiplied. They reason it’s better not procreate over and to resist so much, to over until disintegrate maintain the illusion, and return to eternal to be defeated. sleep. My rules were specific. Walking in their paths and join Ana María Shua (Argentina) them to comply with the things were set for them. Guide them in using their free Guardian angel will. Watch as the stars fall, he said, I When I am calm, your aura of purity know. We don't belong here anymore. gives yourself away. You show My wings fell to my sides and the colourful and winged, dancing waltzes remains dragged along the ground till in the air, painting frescos in the ceiling become to ashes. My skin was hardened worn out by the years, whispering me and I saw him walk off from the phosphorescent flashes that were coming out from the cracks on my 10 Microfictions, Nebraska University body. Your decisions will mark your Press, Estados Unidos, 2009. [Traducidos destination. You and your allies will be al inglés por Steven Stewart] enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 36
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico words that tell me how I must be, and — Tell me your greatest desire and listening to you, I gently ignore you. I’ll make it come true for you,” — said Sara Lew (Argentina) that dark red infernally gleaming creature with a cracking voice like the Dreams, madness, creaking of an old wooden door. — I curse my latest creations, I don’t and delirium at know why I have this gift and I don’t want to use it anymore. I want to be of midnight goodness to mankind and to be inspired Like a flash of lightening he shot out by messages of coming peace and of bed, in the midst of a dark storm that promises of everlasting love. I lashed over and over want…to be an angel. at the small attic that —Your wish shall was his home. The be granted —declared shadows flooded the the being. room, rousing the —But how is it appearance of gloomy possible that the images against the Devil can grant such bare wall opposite his a wish? —asked bed. Right in front of Ezequiel as the figure him a sinister ochre- began to dissolve colored figure began once more into the to be drawn in mists mist from which it of sulfur and soot. began. Ezequiel sat up, frightened, finally he —Anything is had before him the possible for those very being that had who believe in me. been tormenting him for weeks. Rafael J. Sánchez Rivera (Spain) «What could he want from me? I’m just a humble painter that traced those Your call is looming deaths on my canvas that my unstable mind dictated to me. Is this the important for us one who is responsible for the This is Miguel speaking, what can I predictions that haunt me so?» do for you today? I am Hilario Melián, —Are you the Devil? —asked this is an emergency. ¿What's the Ezequiel. nature of the emergency, Mr. Millman? It's Melián, not Millman, a demon gang —The dark figure smiled. just broke into my garden. Mr. Melián, enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 37
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¿do you have a blessed water irrigation system? I do, but one week ago the sprinklers stopped working and the repair team hasn't showed up yet. Let me put you on hold for a ¿Do you know what you have to do, minute, Mr. Melián (Toccata and Fugue Hilario? Yes, I do. No need to worry, in D minor, Bach, BWV 565). Thank then. Silence invades the house, no you for your patience, Mr. Melián, I shouts or coarse laughter can be heard. just added you to the urgent request list, Hilario peeps out of the window: there's a repair team will visit you during the no trace of the invaders. Thank you next three days. ¡In two hours we will very much, he says, that was quick. all be posesed, Miguel! Keep the faith, You are welcome, I'm sending over the Mr. Melián, it's demons' sabbath high papers for you to sign. Hilario says season and we are saturated, I can offer goodbye and hangs up. His hands are our extended service with a special shaking. It had to happen some day, he discount. ¿How much is the extension, thinks. It's the first time he has to Miguel? Let me transfer you with mortgage his soul. Tomorrow his Exorcisms (Ave María, Schubert, D friends will buy him a beer. A little red 839). Hilario sees the demons dig a magnet will arrive, mixed with the hole, sparks flying from their hooves, mortgage contract: the bank is always just above the phone line duct. looking for new referrals. Who am I Desperate, his eyes stumble upon the going to give this to, sighs Hilario, as little red magnet on the refrigerator. he walks to the kitchen to prepare fresh Lead us not into temptation, he prays. coffee. The call drops, and in the background Martín Andrés Hain (Argentina) he hears a diabolic uproar. Hilario breaks down, takes out his cellphone Duality through and dials the number in the red magnet. Who is this, asks a tired voice. This is the looking glass Hilario, a friend gave me your number. The interior of the store of antique What can I do for you, Hilario. A gang toys was attired with a gloomy of demons broke into my garden, I can decoration, thanks to the weird products hear them banging at the back door. that gave it its identity. Its brick walls enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 38
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico lined with ebony panels were teemed just in the very center, there turned with every kind of mechanical toys; round two crystal spheres standing for jewels coming from the most ancient the planet Earth. One face of the mirror epochs and civilizations, and from the was silvery, the other black. From the two millennium of Christianity. Mr. inside of the black face, a row of little Escher didn't like at all the look of toy angels came out. They moved mummification the toys had: "The time forward flapping graciously their they store was a witness to ages of true wings, went around the sphere that was darkness", he thought, just before to ask rotating from left to right by the gentle the old man behind the store counter by touch of their swords, and ended up the toy he chose. plunging again, as if by magic, into the —It's here —answered the owner blackness of the mirror. In the same fixing his eyes on the child's ones who spot, but from the silvery face of the trembled of joy beside his father—. As mirror, issued little demons of fire color the legend goes it belonged to Pope that drew the same course, forcing the Sylvester II, who also possessed a rotation of their sphere from right to left brazen head that answered yes or not. with the pricking of their tridents. Each Come, I'll show you how it works. sphere, when forcing to rotate, showed in its crystal surface fantastic images In the solitude of his chamber, the belonging to mythical times of the child put in motion the mechanism of earth. Once the mechanism stopped its the toy. In the middle of a rectangular cycle, the child had to switch the platform, stood a mirror. On both sides, position of the spheres; in order to see the angels and demons rotating the opposite sphere. "It's a funny game — he thought—... Especially on the silvery side." Odilius Vlak –seud.- (Dominican Republic) The Riders of Remembrance As spectres They wander by the desert prairies Of the old region of Franks Deep-set and dark their eyes are Their bodies lean and pale enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 39
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Covered by rags Come from the second circle And long and thin Beyond the heaven of spaceships As shrivelled wheat ears They say that the radiant messengers Are their hands of gods In the star-spangled nights Were those who gave them the bread They leave their caves looking for air The sacred light and the dream And the water of cactuses The authors of the uproar And to see the wrinkles of their faces And they also say that returned whistling Bathed in moonlight Strange sand melodies They are the riders of remembrance And that they felt disillusioned and Riding mutant camels decided By the dunes and waves (With the pain of their antennas) Thinking over life and paths To burn the bad written pages They say that their voices whisper Of that old story The good old times And start again Before the return of angels Antonio Mora Vélez (Colombia) And that also relate the sounds of horror Rabbi Versus The ripped flesh Angel The earth devoured by the fire A Hasidic Rabi promises one of his
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico disciples that he will save his suffering Ausubel, the unbeliever, in a collection wife by doing no more than pray for of humorous stories. her. Ana María Shua (Argentina) Days later the weeping disciple confronts him: his wife has died. Águilas Blancas “It’s not possible,” the rabbi assures After many comings and goings, him. “While I prayed, I managed to Águilas Blancas, the century- old take away the sword from the Angel of structure placed in the midst of the Death.” sierra ended up in Wanda’s hands. “My wife is dead and buried,” insists Proud of her acquisition, the millionaire the young man. announced at a tea party that she was planning to celebrate her birthday at the The rabbi meditates for a moment, hunting lodge. “It’s nothing but a ruin. trying to understand. It doesn’t even have power”, warned “There’s one other possibility: her friends. “They will connect it in perhaps when he realized he was time,” she answered assuredly, missing his sword, the Angel decided to convinced that only a big party would strangle her with his bare hands.” clear up the stagnant energies. The curious thing is that this brief However, the electric power connection history has been compiled by Nathan did not take place. Instead, the woman
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico proposed that each guest bring a candle. while the diabolical armies traveled Everything was supposed to be upward to the star-dusted heavens sumptuous and in white. Along the dragging along hundreds of souls. galleries they dressed up tables with Among them, they could distinguish the candles and floral centerpieces of that American lady’s blonde hair and white color. In the great hall they set white dress. tables with candelabra, and from the Violeta Balián (Argentina) moldy, eaten-away walls hung huge floral wreaths. Outside, rows of white Nature of Angels lanterns marked the access road for Wanda’s guests, who by her specific instructions came from all social strata. Candles in hand, the people crowded together before the great door. Once inside, mesmerized by the aroma of hundreds of candles in constant splutter, they stood, speechless at the great hall’s nonsensical interiors. At the sound of midnight, dressed in full white, her hair pinned with flowers, Wanda made her triumphal entrance. “She looks like an angel”, they gasped. The orchestra sounded a few notes. A stranger wearing a wide-brimmed black hat stepped forward to take her by the waist and dance an anachronistic waltz. The other couples joined them in a twirling frenzy until sudden and unusual beams of light entered through the skylights illuminating the whole The fight waste of a being debated enclosure. The music stopped. The within him, woke him. He tried to sit up attendance, stunned, was now and remember what happened. He surrounded and outnumbered by spotted the cross burned into his chest. specters, zombies, and other creatures. He needed the big wings that covered “The demons are here!” cried out those his back. His body was not the same, it few seeking cover in the sierra’s was white, was not holy. darkness and who, at a safe distance That story he liked and it was could now hear the discordant forbidden to remember, in which the orchestra’s sounds. Horrified, they heavens had been tarnished, stained watched the flames consume the lodge with blood, and the rebels had been enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 42
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico driven out of heaven, had happened anything to lose, except probably my again. The scenes of what happened, soul. like a light came into his mind. Now –To be of them eternally if you do it - was when I saw images of angels Says non-stop of crying – and not pus it tearing, biting pain, the shame of to prevent. suicide to see how little devils left their bodies saints. As they showed the skin, Stop loading my gun and him smiley revealing new skin, that which for years to the sweet celestial being before had been covered, this, true. kissing him in the forehead. Seeing the black, scaly acquired –I do not believe that there where it anatomies of fallen angels, found that it goes it is worse than this world. Sorry had recorded fire cross on their chests. baby, I can avoid it. Sign that all was over. Lisen his beautiful weeping while to The sky had been invaded by the walking at twenty-four hours, unable to truth. Lucifer got into the wild, where control my wretched decision. To cross he was cast and Jesus went down to the door, extract the weapon and shoot where he was conceived, from which he on the face of the Chinese woman, then had risen. aim at the terrified husband and whisper: Mary Paniagua (Dominican Republic) –The fucking box! A path to the hell It emptied the wretched money and There I was, plunged in the glooms of shoot on a human face for the second the night, loading my gun in the middle time that night. Take to vozka and of that desolate people of Texas´s whiskey of Malt of step and on having indeterminate place. The Angel was gone out, I saw that a limousine was crying to my side, waiting for me. The opening his beautiful door is open and a wings of bird and voluptuous woman unable to change my smile me. decision. –For that you wait to –Do not do it– He ender cowboy? begged me with the Look at the angel to voice more beautiful cry for last time, for the that you eat to ear – Still poor devils that it had these in time. left besides my or –Time…? Time for probably for me. I got in what! – I ask without the limousine and the door having been enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 43
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico closed, I saw the woman the being nailing my misfortune in some summit turned more frightfully that you eat it The gods, bored to death, had seen. I shouting while I was covering with his black wings of insect peered into my soul, and laughing non-stop. looking for some sign of humanity –That you think armed bandit, that As i didn¨t give them anything, they serious quite to easy?. Do not forget played that the way to the hell I fill this one bread and cheese with my destiny with good intentions. Angel ... said one Jorge Zarco Rodríguez (Spain) Demon ... said the other Living in the Angel ... clouds Demon ... Centuries later, none yet, Accumulating Limbus in heaven, ever walked the misery of another Gods were playing with my sadness And I, sitting to the right of someone, It is silly to drown in a glass of water watch them play when you have the sea getting wet your feet ... Lucila Guzmán (Argentina) And I left there mounted on a wave,
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−You´ve sinned. You´ve infringed Rumors divine laws – the winged man, bowed, It is said that the devil tends to adopt didn´t say anything – So I have to the form of a male goat or a great black convicted you Supreme Punishment. dog. It is also said that a strong sulfur −The…the Supreme Punishment? smell tends to precede his apparition. It B…but I don´t go to Hell? is said that even in his human form he −No, I´ve said Suprem Punishment. tends to wear a long tail and cloven hoofs. The inhabitants of the Earth −Nooo, please, I supplicate you – the tend to spread these and other sinner angel overthrowed to floor, kneel comforting rumors, looking at their feet down in front of God, requesting with great relief. mercy. Ana María Shua God moved his hands, (Argentina) whereupon angel disappeared. Hell At the same time, on I wonder Earth, a child weeping was heard, new born If there’s a hell, announcing. Where all the ideas Ricardo Manzanaro that i didn’t write live. (Spain) Good ones, bad ones, The measly ones Mutual And my sexual punishment antics. Will I end up with angels or them demons Once I die? They were born at the foot of a I look in the mirror bonfire twins. That night was stormy I’m a bad idea after all, and cold air drying. One was heavenly witha beautiful face, the other was I know it. apparently rejected by a being Rui Caverta (Mexico) deformed twist of misfortune. They were separated, but were reunited one Punishment day. The handsome was ruthless, unfair Supreme Being looked at the and Machiavellian; killed their parents malefactor facing him. in a frenzy of hatred, stabbed them as enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 45
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico they slept, without mercy. The Ugly the worn-out pentagram. He conjured lived in the mountain worker, honest lahpawak with words of a language and helping your neighbor. He learned long forgotten. what had happened and returned. A sudden change in the arrangement Forgot rejection who provided their of the black church preceded its entry. parents, and went in search of his Brimming with pustules and tortured brother. Angel vs demon, but which wounds, lahpawak was the deplorablest one was the angel andthe devil what. creature of all hells. The handsome lifetime spent laughing at the world and ensuring himself ugly. – My name is Berat, – the magician However, inthose moments of struggle, said. – You are under my command. both were equal. We all have an angel The beast, frightening, began to laugh. to the surface and a devil hidden deep – Berat! – said the beast. – My name inside of us. A duel governed by the is now Berat! You are lahpawak! law of the strongest, but both fell struck by injuries. Angel and demonended Only then the Kabbalist noticed it was their lives in penury ground satin dyed him who remained trapped inside the with the color of death. pentacle and someone else, freed, who Texy Cruz (Spain) Tergum Verto He had tracked it from the writings of Eber, ancestor of all Hebrews, to the hermetic texts of Abaris the Hyperborean. The last reference, unfinished, was found in the grimoire of Nahmanides under layers of darkness and deception. The name of the beast: lahpawak; the inverse demon, theלהפוך, infernal creature that consummated his breviary. He calculated its gematrical number, hidden under the sum of its digits. Kabbalistic algebras led him to Zebulun the Patriarch and his curse in Deuteronomy to the man who makes a carved or cast metal idol, and sets it up in secret. He followed these buried instructions and raised an altar within enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 46
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico smiled next to his breviary, also them and none kneels for nobody but unfinished. his own reason. Pedro Román (Spain) For almost all, we’re the eminent enemies of the known, the World and The fallen the truth… But, if victory has been by our side, we would have been the And that strife / blessed, and they, slaves that resign to Was not inglorious, though th' lead their own lives, would have been event was dire. the Fallen. Milton, Paradise Lost. Carlos Díez (Spain) There was a time, when creation was boiling plenty of hope and the now Angel in the Ring forgotten ages were just seeds in the No, there’s nothing interesting about living’s minds, when we were the watching him fly, because he does after salvation. all have wings. It’s like watching a man But the fire of envy crackled, fed by walk, like watching a fish swim. Now if the ambition and in the pusillanimous this angel of yours could do a trick that tinder’s cowardice took flames. went against his nature, against his Almost half of the anointeds elevated anatomy. Could he throw knives, for a rebel, a ruler pride blinded and example? Now we’re getting there. merciless. What did you say his name was? Azrael, Azreal—that sounds familiar. The strife lasted for centuries. But here we’d have to give him a stage Millions died. We dried oceans and name, something stronger, more mountains were melted. artistic, easier to pronounce. We could The revolt rose up from the chaos, call him, say, “The Angel of Death.” sacrificed its fathers and devoured its That would get the audience going. Ah, sons. Only the Commander prevailed. I get it. That’s his specialty. No, he And the laws of the past were fused. doesn’t have to show me. But, you And the pillars of the future were know, that’s a pretty common trick. broken. Even a kid . . . What if we had him do the opposite? That would be Everyone loyal to Old Order, believer impressive! Oh. I see. It’s not his thing. in the all born equality, became outlaw Look, leave him with me a few days, no as we accuse the new Leader’s commitment, and we’ll find something falsehood, anxious for all-mightiness. we can do with him, especially if he’s We suffer the blaming of pretend to discreet. You know, everybody’s got tempt and inflame the men’s pride and enemies. And creditors. selfishness, when all we want is liberate Ana María Shua (Argentina) enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 47
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reproaching expression. I could raise I’m not afraid up, it's true, push the beast aside, The scene is horrifying, the creature overcome it if I wanted, even though I'd has leaped on her and the room is filled burn up. To sacrifice my body for the with a thin rain of blood and the noise it only pure thing I've ever met, a noble makes when tearing her flesh is act, for once. Furthermore, she means dreadful, but I'm not afraid, though I so much for me. I could also approach, don't dare to move. I'm sitting on the ignore the monster and kneel down near floor and I just look at the two beings her, hold her head between my hands while one agonizes and the other one and push her eyes with my thumbs, free devours. And I said I'd protect her. I myself from the blame they mirror. lied, of course, otherwise she would The idea entices me strongly, but it also have gone long time fills me with nausea. In ago, and I needed her the end, although I'm with me. Sooner or not afraid I don't dare later, the monster to move. I stay sitting would have caught her, on the floor and look at but she believed me the two beings. Virtue when I promised to be and grace, infamy and watchful, that I would corruption. Both look never let it draw near. I down on me. don't even remember Egoitz Laparra (Spain) how it has come in, if it has turned up from Nuisance11 nowhere or it has been me who has let it pass. The devil went to the entrance and gave four I feel everything has been sudden, but it slaps to the angel who was on sentry duty, may has been there all the time, with us. However, I'm not afraid, but I don't then he tugged at his hair whilst screaming obscenities into his ear, dare to move. Sitting on the floor, looking at the two beings. The tugged at his dress and laughed at his outrageous creature barely casts a private parts, stuck his thumb into an glance at me, while it stops to swallow eye with no pupil, wiped a hoof over his well formed feet, and turned his flesh, bones and feathers. Its attention turns back quickly to the remaining back only to bend over and show him a wing. The blood fills again the air. taunting face between splayed legs, Meanwhile, she stares at me, but her whilst waving in the air a finger dirty eyes don't beg for help anymore. Her face gives me away a disgusted and 11 Traducción: Damián Martín enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 48
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with excrement. But not even with this was he able to distract the sentinel's There, in the special cocoons, attention, who merely made a small gesture as if to wave away a fly. Our sons are melt, Tired, the devil sat down on a stone. Heir to the old epics. - We'll wait then. I can wait. The day With toned muscles will come when you will lower your And hands capable of brandishing guard. In a year, two, in a century, ten. swords. A distraction, the smallest slip, and I'll How can we not called them our own. get in, you bastard! If we Ricardo Cortés Pape (Spain) Don’t feel anymore, Sputnik Nor touch, To all the heroes Nor life, We now call space junk We aren’t. Robothics is a star broth, Filled with metallic grebes, We gave them something, That come down during rain That emptied us, And peck at cosmic grain. No life, no touch. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 49
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That is what I tell myself. Before i sleep. The New Now the robotic part, Watches us from the moving train. Angel We run to it, A new angel looks at an old tomb ¿does it notice us, There is no good Through the window? There is no evil The train flies The destiny has away and changed breaks a faint skin of milk. And a mighty devil burns in a Like a kid’s black abyss… spoon in cereal.
Goodbye, son, goodbye. The phantoms of existence are
dead We can only And the serpents wait. cry for the Beyond today, paradise lost… tomorrow,
Rub our hands The new angel Until they is not a prodigal black son themselves with blood. His wings are grey Dedalus defeat black, His eyes like flames Stiff and cowardly passivity. His name is an infinitive number Not like the stratospheric air of Icarus. And all the gates are open for him… Because the greek lied to us,
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He is the angel of a stormy dawn… the clamor, the greed and now my body Fabián Daniel Leuzzi (Argentina) lies here... I see my inert body, not breathing. I The passenger see an old wooden house bathed by the blinding light of an oak in flames, his It was a magic night, the spotlights autumnal leaves burn my skin ... they turned off but the ecstatic mass still was show me the way to her. overstocking the BroadWalk Hall. They She is sitting in her rocking chair, had just attended an epic battle between watching me from the porch of his two boxers who made tremble the house. foundations of the quadrilateral as if they −Where am I? Am I were two titans. The dead? - No answer. clamor of the crowd −Does not matter raise me up to the son, I just want to altars of the Olympus know what would you still it resound in my do if I let you go head, they will back? - The old resounding for it woman spoke but his whole eternity. lips did not move, My body lies in New remained sealed. Jersey's dark and −I would kill those humid streets while who stole her from the life escapes from me, I would kill them me with every breath. all - Anger spoke for Still I listen in my me. head this torn voice −Do this for me, be for the pain and the tears, a voice begging mine until the end of clemency to the same the days and she will death. be back −Every single word of her mouth smells like sulphur. I nodded, −I’m sorry…- They were the only eager to receive the most precious gift, words that went out my mouth, seeing revenge. impotent how they were snatching her of my arms forever. I still hear that −Who you are elderly? An angel? A demon? Maybe a God? - I returned to voice, I will listen for the whole eternity. Do not lower my defense when ask. I needed and I hit him with all my heart −I am your penance - she answered. when it was not the agreement. It was enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 51
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I still I listen to these words, they will up the sand particles and changes the resounding in my head for the whole landscape of dunes; endless drags eternity. shadows that haunt us as the scorpion Gorka Moreno (Spain) expected a misstep. Choir: Can the truth divide? A Marvel of Flying The force that holds the universe is Poetry now in question and I begin to doubt the existence of a nucleus able to When Alfredo Codona, a Mexican govern the eternity at its sole discretion; trapeze artist, first achieved the triple I prefer to consider the fact that there somersault in 1920, the newspapers fire in all bonfires. Many other share called him a “marvel of flying poetry” this opinion, immortal angels tangled and an “angel of the trapeze.” Codona by an idea, broken factions that comes was shocked. He always between light worked with a safety net, and darkness. to perfect his disguise, Choir: Ravings and he was sure that he of grandeur. had been flawless in The foolishness concealing his wings. destroys Ana María Shua anything it (Argentina) touches In the The more time I remain here, I beginning anchored here, so much more I Choir of cherubim: Ra, convince myself 12 neb her kemam that this He has sent his troops rebellion is south, with me in front. synonym for Humans sleep the story´s progress. I risk dream and we, the overly. Exile is winged horsemen of the the punishment golden disc, brothers we fight against to disobedience. The approaching brothers in an endless revolt. The desert obscurity tinged with purple surrounds welcomes us into their harmonics me with its disturbing gloom. spaces. The wind, warm and dry, picks Choir: You must go back, Luzbel!
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I raise my sword and I advance raised an unbreakable bridge, where the without stopping in spite of the voices distances were shortened. Sabrina was that whisper at my back. Is impossible in its arms, captivated by its beauty it to return of a concept; maybe when moved, almost recalling its days as an humanity be awaken. angel, was less arrogant, lustful and María José Gil Benedicto (Spain) cruel; it did not conceive its recent transformation. This time Sabrina´s Tales of Hemicycles: soul had captivated it, tried to kiss her and that was when it saw the spirit of The Wanderer the girl shine like an angel. It was late, she had caught it in the theodicy of Exiled from the angelic circle for good and evil, Sabrina had won the having desecrated with pride the choir battle against the Wanderer. In surprise, of Seraphim, it was condemned to a circle of fire engulfed them and the wander as a dark demon on earth. demon felt confined, infinite peace, Its beauty confused the unprepared emerging from it penultimate darkness. souls, it could mimic almost like a Graciela Marta Alfonso (Argentina) human, only a very high spirit could surprise it, revealing their lust and The Taming cruelty. “The vision of the end of days will One summer night, camouflaged take place, but not before finishing my among young people trying to seduce army” said spreading his huge white new souls, capturing the dreamers in bluish wings. Then he entered the calf’s search of exciting abode who started adventures, these to bellow whit the souls were delivered fury of the to the delights it compendium of lavished, emptying pure and impure and selling its souls within him, essence by mirages. the devotees, the The music forgotten, the enveloped the converts, his celebration where consorts, the fluffy the youth danced spirits of wild wildly; the creatures in the Wanderer observed exile and the crystal a young woman it souls of the ancient had also conquered. people who knew The pupils of both worship him. The enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 53
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico archangel took him by the incipient controlled. Differed but were one, they horns and said: “My horsemen are breathed, pointy talons were growing. ready, Leviathan and Behemoth Then he said: “I am the Archangel baptized on the Jordan, the Nephilim Gabriel, head of the messengers of are marching down the invisible path, God”. The calf replied low: “¿To which with their crimped swords and golden of them do you respond this time?” And armets, the end is near”. The calf hit the hitting the calf´s belly whit the bone archangel jaw but he surrounded him spurs Gabriel concluded: “¡Silence and by the back with his thick silver chain, move forward Baal!”. gave it two laps, took off whit the Federico Miguel Aldunate trapped animal and whispered in his (Argentina) ear: “The book of Atum operates in the lands, already Hyksos and Hebrews The Dragon wander in the west, Amorites and Sumerians walk by the east, Manat The problem is that the dragon doesn’t betrays her Trinity, the end is near”. know how to do anything. He’s too old Drop to the floor a dual mass, the chain, to fly and can hardly manage a pathetic fine link, united them, the floor was liftoff like that of a chicken. Though cracking, some of the souls escaped in two columns of smoke do weakly clamor through the cracks, a new raider ascend from his scaly nostrils, he’s no born, the compendium was strong, longer capable of expelling his punishing fire. He’s interesting, the
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico director says, very interesting, but Ismael also has taken months to reach better suited to a zoo than a circus. his destination. He also left behind When the time comes, he could be family, work and friends. He has stuffed and make a fine addition to any crossed an ocean. He took trains, boats museum. and planes. He has travelled by car, And the owner, or perhaps the carriage, truck, motorcycle and bicycle. dragon’s agent, leaves the circus To cover his epic, Ismael has also depressed, his troupe worked, stole and even killed. And in of winged species in the end he succeeded. tow, a sluggish- He came to this small looking griffin, a square where, a few family of vegetarian days ago, he's waiting vampires, a former for his opponent. He angel who clumsily doesn't know how displays the stumps of many days. No one his amputated wings. cares. Ana María Shua The meeting takes (Argentina) place at night and not see anyone on the Eternal streets. Everyone at one end of the square, fight in the distance, was greeted with a smile. Deng has taken Simple understanding. months to reach his Deng pounces on destination. He left Ismael, pulling a large behind family, work, knife. The Uruguayan friends, a lifetime. He prepares his weapon, a has crossed two rusty cutlass, and both continents. He took are put on guard, trains, boats, planes. waiting for the first He has travelled by attack. His movements car, carriage, truck, are fast and accurate. Precise hits, motorcycle and bicycle. To finance his rushed elusive, elegant feints. Attack, adventure, Deng has worked, has defense, counterattack, deflection, stolen, even killed. But in the end he backlash. An echo of sirens resounds. has succeeded, has come to a small But they don't care. Continue their square of a neighbourhood of deadly dance. Finally, Deng fell, Barcelona. mortally wounded. Ismael is about to deliver the coup de grace. "Stop, enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 55
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico police". The Uruguayan ignored. There Then a river of blood ran across the were two shots. In the middle of the sky: the red trail of the seriously square, there are two dead bodies. wounded angel. He didn't live past Time stops. From the lifeless body of noon. the eastern emerges a being of light, Naturally nobody in the station found radiant white, the culmination of out. creation. From the body of Ismael, Ricardo Cortés Pape (Spain) emerges a dark shape, anchylosed, the spawn of evil. Ethereal, nobody sees. The Bet Face to face, both spread their wings, cross their eyes and smile, accomplices. On a cold Christmas Eve night, a bright At full speed, each part in the opposite red butterfly and a luminous blue bird direction, they continue their eternal flew above the city and entered a room fight. where a young girl was sleeping. Then they respectively turned into a red-eyed Francesc Barrio Julio (Spain) demon and a blue bird-headed Patrol13 gargoyle. “We can start” said the gargoyle. “The Whilst on patrol on that sector of the one causing the most powerful dream to sky, the angel passed next to the orbital her wins. If you do, you can have it station and saw a devil who was your way and ruin Christmas. But if I hanging around, clearly trying to get in. do, you go back to Hell.” Without a second thought he fell upon it. The devil, who had twenty eyes, “I won’t” said the demon. Out of including a pair on the back of it's neck, nowhere, he produced a perfume bottle. turned and spat into the blue eyes a He opened it and a powerful scent greenish black slime. Although smaller, invaded the room. the devil defended itself well, and bit, The girl dreamed of flowers that scratched, kicked tirelessly. Throughout whispered a perfumed incantation into a whole day and a night they fought her mind. She thus acquired magic without stopping, and they only came powers, but had no control on them. apart to allow a technician through, Her bed moved, she hung in the air. who had come out of the station for However scared, she could not stop some exterior repair work. this. A hoarse voice resounded in her Finally, at dawn, the angel broke free head. If you train to control this magic, and dug the sword of light into the you will be the most powerful sorceress devil's swollen belly, who died spewing in the world. No way, she thought. She an endless flow of gut and fecal matter. wanted neither the magic nor the fear it caused. She turned on the other side. 13 Traducción: Damián Martín enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 56
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The gargoyle took its violin. It played a anybody woke up, she went to pick lovely, slightly sad music. Like the flowers and visit her mother’s grave. demon’s scent, the melody soon “I won” said the gargoyle. “No doubt invaded the mind of the young sleeper. about it” confirmed a furry hedgehog This time she dreamed of a forest. sleeping beside the girl. “I am the Everything – trees, flowers, animals, guardian of her dreams and yours was birds - were made out of stone. Her the best one. It was a masterpiece of a heart was filled with sorrow. This was a melody.” motionless version of the park where “Who cares” said the demon. “I never her mom used to take her when she was keep my promises. Good bye! Off I am a child. A huge, ugly troll advanced to ruin everybody’s Christmas in this toward her and took her hand. His eyes city.” were so sad that she followed him to a dark part of the park. A translucent The gargoyle started playing its violin. woman was sitting on a gravestone. The The music filled the demon’s mind and girl reluctantly stepped toward her. it made him think of Hell. Overcome with nostalgia, the demon sighed, Mom! Her beloved mother that had spread his bright red wings and flew died a few years back… Mom smiled, back to the Dark Realms. approached her and softly caressed her cheek. “Where I am, I always watch Sissy Pantelis (Greece) over and protect you. Don’t be sad on Christmas day, love. I am with you…” `The girl woke up, her eyes filled with tears. Don’t go away, Mom, she begged. She cried a lot; then she recalled Mom’s words: I am with you. The girl wiped her eyes; before
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Who is Who: Hellboy: Demon goes good
By Cristina Jurado (Spain) Ilustraciones: Mike Mignola (EE.UU.) ®
The son of a demon and a witch, Hellboy (a.k.a Anung Un Rama14) came to this world summoned by the Nazis during the Second World War II. Found by American scientists who worked for the “Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense” (the B.P.R.D.), he was raised and educated to fight crime and injustice. The demonic nature of this unusual superheroe is the origin of his numerous abilities: super- fast healing and recovering from serious wounds; vast knowledge of ancient and modern languages; superior vision; enhanced strength and endurance; immunity to fire; decelerated aging; expert in hand-to hand combat and in swordsmanship. Hellboy stands up against other comic superheroes thanks to his personality: he is nothing like he looks like. His monstrous physical appearance hides a good heart and an empathic attitude towards humans. His strong will to combat evil relies in his legendary stubbornness and his disdain for his
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico destiny. Behind the façade of a tough guy with dry and self-deprecating sense of humor lays an adventure seeker and a trustworthy comrade. As a character, Hellboy is the son of American cartoon artist and writer Mike Mignola http://www.artofmikemignola.com. Mignola has revealed to base loosely the character on his father, a man prone to injuries and with a unique sense of humor. In his own words: “After ten years drawing for Marvel and DC Comics, I just really wanted to do a book entirely made up of subject matter I really love. And I wanted a book where I could draw a lot of monsters, not superheroes. A bunch of us artist/writers were all doing this at the same time -John Byrne, Art Adam, Frank Miller- and we approached Dark Horse (Frank was already doing “Sin City” there) and asked if they would give us our own little corner of Dark Horse, called “Legend”. Mike Richardson, president of Dark Horse, said yes right away. The “Legend” group didn't last very long but because I was part of it when Hellboy started I did get more attention than I would have otherwise, so it worked out well for me.
When asked about the demonic nature of the character, Mignola answers: When I started Hellboy I didn't really give any though to his demon nature. I've always tried to treat his first and foremost as a person. Only recently did I have a bit of demon nature show up (when he killed those giants in “Wild Hunt”). In the beginning, my plan was never to address his being a demon. I just thought it was funny that the good guy would look like the devil. But the idea of what he is, where he came from, what he's supposed to do, just crept in there over the years.
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In “The Chapel of Moloch” Mignola sets the story in Portugal (not far from Spain and full of the same Mediterranean landscapes). Sometimes it seems that Hellboy is just an excuse for the author to visit the world and “mignolanitize” fantastic places that emanate mystery and possibilities. The artist confirms this opinion: Yes. I set “Chapel of Moloch” in Portugal just so I could draw that town. The story has nothing to do with Portugal and could be set anywhere. I plotted the story and then just looked through old photos for a place that would be fun to draw. I did want to set it somewhere I hadn't done before, since I know in Hellboy's career he has been everywhere. In his drawing style Mignola acknowledges influences by comic and book illustrator Jack Kirby and mentions Gustav Dore, H. P. Lovecraft and even Bram Stoker’s Dracula as major inspirations for his stories. Yes, expressionistic is probably a pretty good way to describe my drawing and even storytelling style. Impressionistic might even be better. While many other comic artists choose to portray muscular and slender characters, Mignola draws voluminous and architectural ones with smudged shadows and solid colors. He extends this approach to illustration to the landscapes of his histories, favoring Gothic imagery and steampunk machinery15.
Description: pp. 9 The first drawing of Hellboy pp. 27 Art for Capital City Distribution´s Calendar (color: Matt Hollingsworth)
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Article: The Gospel of Jesus Christ: A dispute among the angels and demons
Ma. del Socorro Candelaria Zárate (Mexico)
"... Because the goodness that I am, wouldn´t exist without the evilness that you’re, the goodness that I have couldn’t exist without you, it would be unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even imagine, finally if you don't exist, neither I do, and therefore if I will be the kindness you have to keep being the evil, if the Devil does not live like Diablo, God does not live as God, the death of one would be the death of the each other ... " This is one of many revealing moments of one of the most controversial novels of the Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago, "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ". In this paragraph that I retrieve and transcribe literally, the author recreates a dialogue that exists between God and the Devil, who shows throughout the novel as two beings among whom there are a good communication and presents them as brothers twins, leading us to identify them as two sides of the same coin. The polemical point at this moment of the story is the reasoning of God in which he affirms that whereas the more power may have one of them; the more power will also have the other one, because they need each other, and the humans beings are only disputed between them two as instruments. This novel caused great controversy along the several sectors of the Catholic Church that was described as blasphemy, a situation that earned the Portuguese Writer was the contempt of some representatives of the Catholic Church, which was given to the task of protest when the author won the
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Nobel Prize for Literature, considering him not worthy to receive this important worldwide recognition. José Saramago declared himself as atheist, but I think he gave to all humanity one of the most beautiful and moving works on the life of Jesus in the history of literature, showing a man with doubts, fears, rages, anxieties and desires, with strengths and weaknesses, as attainable and understandable for any of us. Completely away of the idealized style of Christ the Redeemer, strange, remote and unattainable for men. Another interesting moments in the novel is when God shows to Jesus what will happen to the world after they have started on Christianity as a religion, describing the millions of people who will have to die in his name, both believe in him, for not believing, then they spoke about the Crusades and the Inquisition, traces the history of mankind explaining all the abuses and injustices against humanity that the church will have to make for the sole purpose of supporting a religion. This will cause to Jesus a great shame, but he knows that he cannot renounce to his destiny. The most dramatic moment comes where Saramago describes Jesus when he’s dying on the cross and instead turns to the sky and say the phrase that is known for all of us: "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do" instead Jesus turns to the men who are standing in front of him and says: "Men forgive him, because he does not know what he did."
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Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico plan which, if diary of Nikola Tesla, a successfully concluded, famous electrical genius Phyrium start of every reputed to be smarter silver lining. than Einstein himself. Where cruelty and But what was depressed rampant betrayal, Tesla in New South resistance is Westnoth Wales in 1925? hidden alliances with The Pentagon knows, which to strengthen and Mick and his their weak and brittle girlfriend Jesse want to influence. At the same find out: the time, Fleips the kylion competition begins to nice little, look for ways give Tesla's legacy. The to fulfill a destiny that, clues lead to a remote at times, it becomes copper mine and an old essential for the future racehorse called Tears of Fire. of the world. Antologías: … Title: 2099 Antología de Ciencia Title: El legado de Tesla Ficción Original title: The Tesla Legacy Selection: Miguel Angel Diaz Author: Robert G. Barrett Gonzalez and Felix Rus Translation: Silvia Authors: VV. AA. Melón Carraro Publisher: Ediciones Pages: 320 Irreverentes Synopsis: The Irreverent Editions electrician Mick has titled this Vincent had almost anthology 2099 in everything you always homage to 2001: A wanted in life. All that Space Odyssey, it is was missing to be expected that at the happy was a clutch end of S.XXI someone pressure plate for 1936 read this book with the Buick Roadmaster. pleasure of discovering the hopes Through a strange of the authors of our old woman, Mick is a time, expectations, coveted piece. And the fears even errors. But enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 70
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico the latter only time will tell if they are The journey of an American mistakes or errors of our them. journalist in 2889. Jules Verne 2099 Just before going to press, the The 7 Wonders of the century XLI June 5, 2012, Ray Bradbury left us. Francisco José Segovia Ramos Therefore, this anthology considers I will be legend. Santiago Editions Irreverent a modest tribute to Bergantinhos one of the most important authors of our time. A better world. Javier Fernández Jiménez Featured 58 writers from 14 countries (U.S., England, Russia, Venusian Chronicles. Felix Diaz Spain, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Gonzalez Colombia, France, Venezuela, The elected. Susana Corcuera Uruguay, Argentina and Honduras) The old of all time. Salvador Robles Index: Miras Foreword. What is science fiction? Three meters below ground. Elena Felix Diaz Gonzalez Marqués For a watt more. Erick Mota KindCare. Juanje Lopez The flying carpet. Nelson Verastegui GH39. Javier Martos Earth populous questions. Eduardo 233 ° Celsius. Pedro Pujante Vaquerizo The man without a body. Edward The horrible land. Carlos Saiz Page Mitchell Cidoncha They are not afraid. Marisa Alemany The evangelical machine. Manuel Villa-Mabela The last coat. Francisco Javier Avila Masegosa Espay 25, the best in the world. Mar Cueto Aller Prelude to New Africa. Higueras Eduardo Ledesma Fluttering. Pablo Vazquez The Navel of the World, 2055. Jorge The allegation of Gaia. Yébenes Majfud Jesus Montemayor Deportees. July Rueda Suarez. Reversible cryopreservation. Miguel Angel de Rus Westbound. Aleksandr Beliaev The secret of Zeos. Francisco Javier My wife is a Cyborg. Alberto Chimal Vivas Illán The serum of life. Joan Llensa The virus Joaquin Llorens enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 71
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Long live the CEO. José Ramón Rise of the letters. Lucía Pérez Sea Fernández Enuma Elish. Raul Hernandez The mifps. Ana María Shua Garrido A dream moon. Pedro Amoros The picnic in a million years. Ray Moon 21. Joseph G. Cordonié. Bradbury The horizontal position. Legaz Final acceleration. Anton Juan Francisco. Vivancos War game. Philip K. Dick The rose of time. Lizárraga Isabel Vizcarra The escoñada spacecraft with a crew inside. Andres Fornells Sixty years later. Kir Bulychiov Madrid-Nation. Victor About the 100 numbers Bórquez. Irreverent Narrative. Miguel Angel de Rus Last night in the Garden of Eden. Pedro Cuentos: López Manzano. Title: Todo lo que Issuance beyond the dejamos atrás known systems. José Luis Author: Alejandro Ordonez. Bentivoglio Saqqara. Harold Kalton Editorial: 79/59 Bruhl. Ediciones The price of the gems. Synopsis: Inspired by a Sergio Gaut vel quote from Alberto Hartman. Manguel ("there may not Two watches. Isaac Belmar. be any poem, it is poorly written, it may not, for secret and chosen reader, Hostile takeover. Joseba Iturrate a comfort, a call to arms, a glow of In an uncertain future. José Isbert happiness, an epiphany "), this Rahom Tabucchi. Teresa Galeote seventh collection of Alexander microficciones Bentivoglio, aims to Holópolis. Ruben Serrano. walk and records various aspects of Orbit. Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen reality and fantasy. Microficciones Baxter black humor, fantastic, surreal, a The spectator. David Navarro parade of texts that, at some point, reflect life itself and passages from Time murky. Ana Maria Coelho drama to comedy, from euphoria to enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 72
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About the Authors and illustrators
Writers: Selected and published in the Call: Short Story and Poetry Anthology, Acevedo Esplugas, Ricardo "A Look at the South." Argentina. (La Habana, Cuba) Editor of the ISBN: 978-987-1872-10-7. digital magazine miNatura. Selected at the XIII International http://www.servercronos.net/blog Poetry and Story Contest 2012, lgc/index.php/minatura/ organized by "Argentine Writers Aldunate, Federico Miguel Group." (La Plata, Argentina, 25 years) Publication of his work: Poem Sometimes college student math Random in magazine "Arts and teacher, also drummer of Letters Plurentes", National candombe. I have published stories University of La Plata, Argentina. in The Cave of the Wolf, and Novurbo Chronicles miNatura (# Collaborates with various literary 123). journals, where he accompanied his literature with the visual Blog: elpapoola.blogspot.com.ar representation. Alfonso, Graciela Marta Baez, Rodolfo (Rancho (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Arriba, San José de Ocoa, Professor of Fine Arts in Painting Dominican Republic, 1983) Is and Printmaking Orientation of the currently developing his career "National School of Fine Arts Thesis Social Communication, Prilidiano Pueyrredón", and Journalism Mention at the Bachelor in Visual Arts Orientation Autonomous University of Santo Engraving Art Institute "IUNA". Domingo. Storytellers Workshop Thesis performed, "Poetics of Book belongs to Santo Domingo from the Art and Book Object". Ministry of Culture. Published Artist Book xylographic of unique under the pseudonym of The copy with illustrated poems. Silence cat the poems of my soul Publications: Book of Poems "The and Verses in minor art also has Silence of the Fire." ISBN: 950-887- unpublished books, "Poems of 031-1. abandonment, more verses in minor art, Shadow blue eyes, The Return Selected and published in the Call: of the Prodigal Son the Man of 100 Poetry and Short Story Anthology, hearts and memories, these are organized by "Passion of Writers". respectively three books of poetry, a Argentina. ISBN: 978-987-1872-00- novella and two storybooks. 8.
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He now works in the trilogy of friends created a publishing editing novels Daughter of Commander RPGs, Yggdrasil Jocs, collaborated whose series is finished the first on a couple of games magazines, volume, and gives the final steps to Leader (as last time) and Rock & the second, which is called The Roll, and spent time practicing as a crime, a blood pact, and another freelance content editor blogs of a novella works which have not design studio. decides to head. Has belatedly discovered the He has worked for the past five literary vocation and write in years in various national stations as Castilian and Catalan. He has announcer. received a mention in the He is also a music lover with some International Short Story Contest I ease to perform within their bars, so chemically impure, published a you can play several instruments. story in the magazine and one in miNatura Lupus in Fabula Balián, Violeta (Argentina) magazine. In Catalan, collaborates Degree in history and humanities with Catarsi magazine, published in (San Francisco State University, the journal The Càntich, and has CA). In Washington, D.C. been a finalist in the IV Premi Washington was a freelance Ovelles Elèctriques. Currently lives journalist for Woman and editor in in Sant Celoni. chief for the quarterly publication, The Violet Gazette. In 2012 and in Candelaria Zárate, Mª. del Buenos Aires Glasser record Socorro (Mexico, 38 years) publicly, science fiction novel and Academic Program Coordinator. fantastic (Edit. Dunken and San Luis de Potosi. He has worked Amazon Kindle). Part of the group in various issues of the digital of 28 authors participating in First miNatura. Exiles, a science fiction anthology Caverta, Rui (Mexico) Has published next to Argentina. published in various magazines in www.violetabalian.blogspot.com several countries and appears in several anthologies of prose and www.elexpedienteglasser.blogspot. poetry. Piccodicciones published in com 2012. Barrio Julio, Francesc (Santa Cortés Pape, Ricardo (Spain, Coloma de Gramanet, Spain, 46) Born in Germany (Cologne, 1968) Initiated studies of physics at 1966) of a Spanish father and the Autonomous University of German mother (thus his last name Barcelona and works in medical and half a family in Rhineland), he emergencies. Meanwhile, some has always lived in Madrid. He enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 77
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico holds a degree in History of Art and engineer working in a works as a translator and German telecommunications company, and teacher, and a second-hand book at night it becomes a writer Sunday dealer in flea markets and, for some (Sunday by lazy, irresponsible, years now, on Internet. Epicurean). He published a book of Delgado, Carlos Ariel stories "Rise and Fall of a talent (Bogotá, Colombia, 35 years) scout" (Ed. Tantalia, 2007), and in Author fantasy and science fiction 2009 won the 2nd prize of the First genre has published online in National Competition Football Letralia and I write, in addition to Story Roberto Santoro with the journals Smoke swirls and digital. story "Too good for this world ", and also the 2nd prize of Leopoldo Díaz Carrión, Juan Antonio Marechal literary Contest XVI, with (Chile) Bachelor of Computer the story" the happy ". Science (USACH). No literary curriculum. Gai, Adam (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941) Bachelor of Arts Díez, Carlos (Leon, Spain, 31 from the University of Buenos Aires years) Has published two editions and a Ph.D. in Literature from the microstories yearbook "Release on Hebrew University of Jerusalem words", published by the (living there since 1972). He taught Foundation for Civil Rights "and American literature at the Hebrew won first prize in the contest IV University and Spanish at various Caudete Love Letters . Published in institutions. His thesis (UBA, 1970) the journal "loudly" Caudete and the was on Anderson Imbert narrative numbers 10 and 13 of the magazine (by then called Valentine "Estadea". In 2008, one of his Gaivironsky) and Ph.D. (Hebrew poems have been published in the University), on Rulfo's narrative About the authors and illustrators (1980). He wrote articles about poetry book "Poems for a minute Hispanic narrators as Carpentier, II", the Editorial hypallage. Bianco, Bioy Casares, Borges, Regular contributor to the Cortázar. Published on some digital websites of political opinion magazines: "Duets", which was a Austroliberales.com and "middle finalist in the magazine's Axolotl, classes of Aragon" and the literary "Borges Kill," which appeared in the magazine "Alborada-Goizialdia". He journal The Dialogue of the Dogs currently resides in Madrid. No. 15 and New Scientist among others. His stories have appeared in Hain, Martín Andrés (Buenos various magazines and anthologies Aires, Argentina) Electrical Digital Tablets (Editions from engineer, married, two children, people, Buenos Aires, 2007), The leads a double life. A daylight is an enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 78
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Monstrua: Narratives of the Society Foundation, V Short Story nameless (Vavelia, Mexico, 2008) Contest on Water Aljarafesa... and other looks (Editions from Her stories have been included in people, Buenos Aires 2008). Your numerous anthologies. We could comments and articles on film can highlight the digital publication of be read online journals his short story Sueñan los niños filmsdefrance.com and aldeanos con libélulas mecánicas cinecritic.biz. (Dream villagers children about Gil Benedicto, José María mechanical dragonflies) (Los (Spain) Officer. Graduate Social Cuadernos de las Gaviotas n. 6, and Fiscal Advisor. I write short CIINOE/COMOARTES, stories, poetry and a story. I have Madrid/México D. F.: 2010), worked in the numbers 114, 120 and included later in Antología de 123 of the Digital Magazine cuentos iberoamericanos en vuelo miNatura won the International (Anthology of Latin American Competition of micro story X Great stories in flight). Her text Es el Minatura 2012 with micro story invierno migración del alma: "Carola is not." variaciones sobre una estampa Guadalupe Ingelmo, Salomé eterna (Is the winter migration of (Spain) She is Doctor in the soul: eternal variations on a Philosophy and Arts, educated in picture), appeared in “Las grullas Spain and Italy (where she also como recurso turístico en worked as translator and teacher of Extremadura” (“The cranes as a Spanish). She is a member of the tourist resort in Extremadura”), was Institute for the Study of the published by the Department of Ancient Middle East, located at the Tourism of the Regional Autonomous University of Madrid, Government of Extremadura in where she develops educational 2011. activities since 2006 as honorary She prefaced The Portrait of professor, teaching courses related Dorian Gray, written by Oscar to languages and cultures of the Wilde, and she also wrote the Ancient Middle East. introduction to the Anthology of the She has received many national VIII Bonaventuriano Contest of and international literary prizes. Short Story and Poetry, organized Among them: in every edition of the by the University of San Francisco Garzón Céspedes Awards Buenaventura of Cali (Colombia), in (CIINOE) from 2010 until 2012, II which she acted as jury for the Prize “Crossing the Strait” event. She was also member of the organized by Granada Culture and jury at the V and VI International Literary Contest Angel Ganivet, enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 79
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico organized by the Association of http://sites.google.com/site/salome Friends of Helsinki (Finland). guadalupeingelmo/ In addition to writing a huge Guinot, Juan (Mercedes, number of short stories, she is the Argentina) Degree in Business author of several poetry anthologies Administration, Social Psychologist and two unpublished novels. and Master in Management. In Her first digital anthology of short 2001 he decided to leave a stories (thirteen tales: eleven Commercial Manager position to winners of various literary prizes become a writer. Since then, his and previously published in joint stories have received literary anthologies of multiple authors and references in Spain, Argentina and two other, head and close, Cuba, which have also appeared in unpublished), La imperfección del magazines and anthologies story. círculo (The imperfection of the He works in radio. His novel The circle), and an extensive interview, War of 2022-edited by Talentura La narrativa es introspección y Gallo (Spain) in 2011. revelación: Francisco Garzón www.juanguinot.blogspot.com Céspedes estrevista a Salomé Guzmán, Lucila Adela Guadalupe Ingelmo (The narrative (Buenos Aires, Argentina, is introspection and revelation: 1960) Has published a children's Francisco Garzón Céspedes book entitled "Doctor of Letters" interviews Salomé Guadalupe Editorial Elevé finalist 2011 Ingelmo), part of the collection of Argentina, recently presented at the narrative inquiry Contemporáneos International Book Fair 2012, in the del Mundo (Contemporary of the City of Buenos Aires. Finalist World), supervised by the contest of children's literature in prestigious writer and man of honor of Maria Elena Walsh, with culture Francisco Garzón Céspedes, the story titled "The Storyteller", have both come to light recently. forthcoming She has frequently collaborates He has received several citations with Revista Digital miNatura: for his poems: National Poetry Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico Contest Corral de Bustos 2011. (miNatura Digital Magazine: International Poetry Contest Magazine of the brief and the Thumbnail fantastic magazine 2012. fantastic) since 2009. Eco global poetry contest 2012. More detailed information about Hispanic Poetry Contest "Gabriela" her career in the world of literature in honor of Gabriela Mistral and may be obtained by consulting others.
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Lives in the City of Del Viso with Literature Contest VIII of Bubbles her husband and four children. Paper with "Grandpa is sad" and Hain, Martín Andrés (Buenos "RISK OF PARENTING" - Finalist Aires, Argentina) Electrical of the contest of micro Castellon engineer, married, two children, Being on April 27 with leads a double life. A daylight is an "overwhelming logic" - winner of engineer working in a the contest of micro Being in telecommunications company, and Castellón last week of March 2012 at night it becomes a writer Sunday with the II SUEGRA.-Accésit Erotic (Sunday by lazy, irresponsible, Poetry Prize and the publisher Epicurean). He published a book of Romantic hypallage with "Stay with stories "Rise and Fall of a talent the two" contest-winning RNE scout" (Ed. Tantalia, 2007), and in Microstories WONDERLAND with 2009 won the 2nd prize of the First "The Stranger" in February 2012. - National Competition Football Microstories pageant finalist of Self Story Roberto Santoro with the in December 2011 with "I think story "Too good for this world ", and you're right" - Winner of the contest also the 2nd prize of Leopoldo of the Being of Castellón in January Marechal literary Contest XVI, with 2012 with "The English and I will the story" the happy ". do" - Special Award hiperbreve theatrical monologue "Garzon Hidalgo Díez, Paloma (Spain) Céspedes "2011 with" Snake. "- Finalist contest Microstories Being Published in the contest I in La Coruna with "SISTERS OF microstories Acen with" bits of love FATHER" contest-winning "-Finalist I microstories contest Microstories with Cadena Ser Doomsday in January 2012 with" 21 soundtrack with "cycles" in the December 2012 "-contest finalist second week of July 1012 - I won the the Being of Castellón in November contest Sixth Continent of erotic 2011 with "Essence." - "- Finalist stories with "Forbidden Games" microstories Christmas pageant La contest winning Children's Villages Forge Troubadour" QUARANTINE "Brothers" in November 2011 with ", published in the compilation "WORDS-third in the Contest III book-Finalist contest of Ser Bucaro Microstories with" WOMEN microstories November 3 2011 with OF HIS LIFE "- weekly contest "And think you're right" - Second finalist Microstories SER Castellon prize in the contest Zarco Literary on June 22 with "LESSON OF with "Eyes of a Child" - Finalist of OPTIMISM ephemeral" - Winner of the contest of micro chain in the first prize of Minificciones from Castellón Being in September 2011 - an image with "twenty-second Winner of X Coffee with writers century" - Finalist hiperbreve with "THE MAGIC of flowers ", enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 81
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico published in the commemorative ALWAYS have thorns", published in book. Finalist Minatura the n ° 1 of the journal Entropy- microstories II contest with "Love winning contest Microstories of Ser Happy" in September 2011 - RNE radio Castellón on March 4, 2011- pageant winner and the contest Finalist contest Microstories Radio Editions Irreverent stories about Castellón in the week of 21 - Mozart in September 2011. It will be February 25, 1011-Finalist published in the book I Minificciones Argentina with recopilatorio.-Finalist Prize The "PRINCESS OF DEATH" V Award- Basket of Words in September 2011 winning Short Story Bridge lyrics to with "my monsters", published in "LETTERS, AND AN OLD the compilation book-V Award MAILBOX" - winner of the Finalist GoldThe of experiences to Christmas stories of the Cadena Ser "survive", published in the book in 08 / 12/2010 with "last minute collection .-finalist, the contest IV shopping" - Winner of contest Fogaril Next to "three yellow lilies"- microstories VII mining Manuel Finalist microstories contest the Nevado Madrid with "the last open Cadena Ser on 07/04/2011 with door" in 2010. - Finalist of the "the Bold" contest-winning stories contest of micro Santa Marta de los on Rock RNE day April 13 to Barros with "aliens" and " "SHEEP AND LAMBS"-Finalist for MANDATORY ". In November Identity Tales contest with "UP" I- 2010-Finalist contest Cadena Ser Finalist joyful erotic poetry contest "YOUR LIFE IN A HUNDRED and the Editorial amatory hypallage WORDS" on November 29, 2010- with "A MOMENT OF LOVE" Winner contest Tales III FARE published in the book "VERSES LIT (Federation of recovered alcoholics) "in March 2011-Finalist I with the story called "green anise," microstories contest theme, published in the book-Finalist Friendship with" stealth, no thanks recopilatorio. II contest on "published in the book" Friends biodiversity with "BLACK AND Forever "contest-winning The War WHITE" I-Finalist contest of micro of sexes Monday in March 2011- Writers in ink with "the cry of the Finalist contest of micro Account lazy"-winner of the contest of Latin 140 in January, February, March, poetry contest I Heritage April and May with different Foundation with " CALIMA in the works.-Finalist I microstories soul "- Finalist II contest Fergutson contest Artgerust science fiction in Christmas stories of 2010 with" red March 2011 with "PROFESSIONAL ribbons "in November of II OF FEAR", published in the 2010Finalista fairytale contest with" compilation book-Finalist Stories THE GUARDIAN OF SLEEP- contest History with "ROSES Finalist contest of micro Account enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 82
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140 with "RANGE" III-Finalist event with the stories' dark Microstories contest on Lawyers in obsession" "NO YOU WILL FAIL" the month of November 2010 with and " IN THE TIMING "published "makeup"-Finalist Film festival in the same book. - III Finalist Microstories Arvikis-Dragonfly pageant microstories of Editorial publisher with "Metamorphosis" hypallage with" lessons learned ", published in the book "The Kiss" published in the book" Tales CONTEST VIII-Finalist Alígeros "- Finalist of the contest INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC tale The Art of Writing" with miNatura 2010 micro story "Temptation" published in "More "professional intrusion" - Winner of Than Words" - Finalist of the the contest "Microstories chain" of contest of Christmas stories with the Cadena Ser and Writers School, the publisher Fergutson "Needless in the week with the short story roast turkey" published in the book 20/05/2010 entitled "Innocence"-I "A Night to toy" - My story is Contest Finalist Craft microstories Russian boots finalist Permanent Compressor with Castilla la Mancha School Writers-Finalist contest of "FEEL" published in the book the Editorial Fergutson stories with collections. - Winner of ex-aequo "his greatest achievement" Writing Contest III Valdesaz quick published in the book "Forging with the work "rather be a BAD Baelix-Cure" - Finalist in March nephew" - Finalist Contest III 2010 in the event of micro on microstories about lawyers Mutual Lawyers "my friend" - Finalist in of CGAE and Lawyers. - II Finalist June 2010 on Lawyers microstories contest of the publishing fairytales contest with "PEACE" - Finalist Fergutson with "Keeper of Dreams" HdH contest, Stories of History published in the book "alphabet with "ergotism WHEN GOD WAS A soup" - Second prize in the contest BAD" - I contest finalist Editorial of children's stories of the novella in Fergutson with the Yellow publishing TheLunes with the story Box-Finalist poetry contest "go to the moon" - May Finalist in adulthood with the veil of the soul. the contest of "chain Microstories" Jurado Marcos, Cristina Chain of Being and Writers School (Madrid, Spain, 1972) Has a with "innocence" - Finalist degree in Information Sciences Artgerust contest erotic-romantic from the University of Seville. It has stories with "PRIORITIES a Masters in Rhetoric from "published in the book collections. - Northwestern University (USA). Finalist in the contest of micro Currently she studied Philosophy at Fergutson with the story" MIX the Open University. Has lived in ROOTS "published in the book" Edinburgh (UK), Chicago (USA) Survival. "- Semifinalist in the same enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 83
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico and Paris (France). His short story Editorial of the Four Winds) "Paper" was selected in the 1st Story (2005); Stories Errant 4, Publisher Contest Editorial Briefs GEEP for Dunken (2005), Latin Write the title of the anthology that (Literary Anthology 2004 Editorial collects the winning entries. His Alternative Root) in story "Higher Lives" was a finalist in Centropoetico.com Poems (2004) in Round 1 miNatura Editions. He has Letrasperdidas.com Story (2004) published his stories in "lost Personal Blog: http / / papers" (Babelia blog, the literary unafocaeneldesierto.blogspot.com supplement of El Pais) and Letralia magazine and contributes regularly Lew, Sara (Argentina, 1974) If to publications of the genre. Write a the seek near of the sea surely find blog about science fiction between brushes and pens, Libros.com including keyboard and mouse. For http://blogs.libros.com/literatura- her writing and the accompanying ciencia-ficcion/ and has just drawing, forming part of the same published his first novel Del creative process: a word inspires the Naranja al Azul in the United-PC next, like a stroke inspires the other. publishing http://es.united- He lives in Spain. pc.eu/libros/narrativa- Post your rants on his blog: novela/sciencia-ficcion- Microstories Illustrated. fantasia.html http://microrelatosilustrados.blogs pot.com.es/ Leuzzi, Fabián Daniel (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laparra, Egoitz (Spain) Has no 1968) Tales and Poems Published literary curriculum. in: miNatura Digital Magazine Luisjavier Osorio -SEUD.- (2012-2011); Mundopoesía.com (Mexico) Computer devotes his life (2011); Cuentosymas.com (2011); to literature. He has collaborated Lyrics Today Argentinas 2010 with microstories and stories in (Editorial Literary Anthology from virtual communities as the four winds) flights from the Falsaria.com. inkwell, Dunken (2010); hands Madarnás, María José counting, Dunken (2009) Lyrics (Venezuela, 28 años) Actually Today Argentinas 2007 (Editorial live in Spain. Literary Anthology of the four winds); Juntacuentos, Editorial http://www.letras-peregrinas.com Dunken (2006) special Mention in https://www.facebook.com/Letras national Competition Union Light Peregrinas?ref=hl and Power (2005); Land Literary Manzanaro Arana, Ricardo (XI narrative and Poetry Contest (San Sebastián, Spain, 1966) enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 84
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Medical. With respect to the C.F. is miNatura. Some of their stories can the current administrator of the be read in the. Awards Ignotus AEFCFT. Blog: Association President Terbi Basque Science Fiction, Fantasy and www.eleclipsedegyllenedraken.blo Horror. Assistant usual since its gspot.com founding 19 years ago of the circle of Martínez González, Omar c. f. Bilbao. He has published more (Centro Habana, Cuba, 41 than 30 stories in various media. years) Has participated in the Live in Bilbao. following competitions: Provincial Personal blog: Competition "Eliezer Lazo", http://notcf.blogspot.com Matanzas, 1998, 99, 2000 (Distinction), 2001; Municipal Martínez Burkett, Pablo Varadero "Basilio Alfonso", 1997, 98 (Santa Fe, Argentina, 1965) (Distinction), 99 (1st Mention), Since 1990 lives in the city of 2002; Competition Provincial Buenos Aires. Writer by vocation Municipality Martí 1999, 2000 and a lawyer by profession, is (Distinction) Territorial teaching graduate universities in the Competition "Candil Fray", country and abroad. He has won Matanzas, 1999, 2000, (Distinction) over a dozen awards in literary National Competition Alejo competitions in Argentina and Carpentier 1999 CF National Spain. In 2010 he received the 2nd Contest Youth Technical Journal prize in the National Competition 2002, 03; National Competition Tales Bioy Casares and 1st prize in Ernest Hemingway, Havana 2003 the National Literature and Literary Contest Extramuros Fantastic Horror "dark world". He Promotion Centre "Luis Rogelio has published stories and poems in Nogueras 2004" Literary Contest ten anthologies. Regularly 2005 Center Farraluque Fayad collaborates magazines and sites Jamis (Finalist) Cuba Event-Fiction devoted to fantasy literature, horror 2003 Award "Rationale "2005 Alejo and science fiction. He recently Carpentier Foundation, presented "Penumbras Smith" International Competition" The (Ediciones Galmort, 2010), a book Revelation ", Spain, 2008-9 of stories that give the reader a (Finalist), 2009-10 (Finalist) unique account of joint portrait and International Competition" Wave disclosure anomalous everyday. It Polygon ", Spain, 2009, Finalist; also is preparing a book of fairy monthly Contest website tales forthcoming where groups all QueLibroLeo, Spain, 2008-9; stories published in the magazine Microstories monthly Contest on Lawyers, Spain, 2009. enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 85
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Martínez Marqués, Pere J. movies, comics, literature, etc ... (Castelló de la Plana, Spain) Although circumstances my studies Actor by profession, TEATRE have led me in another direction, it XARXA company. is this passion that has made devote I have written two plays street with my spare time to writing scripts for text, for young audiences: las short films and comics. Some have aventuras del escuadrón burbuja already become reality as is the case (2004) ¿Qué le pasa a titania? of "Shackles" and others are (2005). Besides other small stunts underway. Collaborated with the performed by The Theatre of film web www.Klownsasesinos.com Companyia FLOTANT. doing movie reviews and opinion on the world of film and now I have the Pregunta en mal momento, micro- chance to miNatura. I currently live story. Bocados Sabrosos ACEN in Barcelona. association. (2011) Moretta, Freddys (Santo The day of the five kings, micro- Domingo, Dominican story winning miNatura Editions. Republic) Undergraduate degree (2011) and management of tourism El ritual, micro-story. "Tasty Bites enterprises, cinema, computer 2" ACEN association. (2012) programming, English and other attempts. Started in literature at the Tras una puerta color rufo, story. early age of 11 years (read and wrote S.O.S. 2012 de La Cesta de las a lot), but until three years ago he Palabras (2012). decided to start on his first book Montelpare, Sandra project on paper. The book (written (Argentina) Teacher of English with Ana Coronado) "Two for the and Spanish. bed and heart" sold a lot of copies Mora Vélez, Antonio from coworkers and friends. Now (Colombia) Poet and writer, he’s living in Spain waiting for the author of ten books (stories, poetry, opportunity to make himself known novels, essays) science fiction. His on an international basis. texts have earned national awards Noroña Lamas, Juan Pablo and appear in several national and (Havana, Cuba, 1973) Degree in international anthologies. Philology. Editor-corrector of Radio Considered a pioneer of science Reloj. His stories have appeared in fiction in his country. the anthology Eternal Kingdom Moreno, Gorka (Barakaldo, (Letras Cubanas, 2000), Secret of Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain, 1981) Future and Crónicas del Mañana From a very young age I had great and the Digital Magazines fantasy admiration for everything about and science fiction miNatura and enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 86
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Disparo en Red. language and therefore the first Prize was the Short Story stage of his literary career. Competition and finalist Half- They explore the dark side of the Round Competition Cubaficción imagination in a kind of symbolic Dragon and 2001 among others. fantasy, closer visionary poetry of Odilius Vlak-SEUD-(Azua, William Blake that narrative Dominican Republic) Writer expressions of the fantasy genre as with continuous self-taught, we know [Epic: Tolkien / Sword and freelance journalist and translator. Sorcery: Howard]. Just finished his In December 2009, created together story, "The Demon of voice", the with a team of writers, illustrators first of a series entitled, "Tandrel and comic book artists, the Chronicles" and has begun work on Blogzine, Zothique The Last the second, "The dungeons of Continent, space devoted to the gravity." genre of Science Fiction, Horror and www.zothiqueelultimocontinente. dark fantasy especially. The latter wordpress.com symbolized by the blog name taken from the eponymous series Pacheco Estrada, Tomás American writer, Clark Ashton (Mexico, 1978) I posted skulls in Smith. the world of Cordoba. Take a short film and online video is called Ana As a freelance translator, and the Claudia de los Santos romantic aspect of the trade-is (https://www.youtube.com/watch? dedicated to translate new texts in v=BLfUvXuwzLs). Besides having Spanish, whether essays, stories, two accounts online. Work on the poems, literature related to gender. film Ceroni Including a series of pulp science (https://www.youtube.com/watch? fiction stories of Smith, published in v=RH8gIm0UjY0). Besides due course in Wonder Stories participating in the television series magazine. A2D3 Ramon Valdez and winner of Also tests Lovecraft and Edgar 8 literary contest cane festival that Allan Poe. takes place in Cordoba, Veracruz. As a writer, he has two Pantelis, Sissy (Greece) Is a unpublished books in print but writer of fantasy and comic. His whose documents are posted on the stories have been published in Blog: "Bottomless Tombs" and Greece, France and the UK. He has "Plexus Lunaris'. Poetic prose worked as co-editor of the French narratives that constitute their first magazine Science Fiction Galaxies. explorations in search of their own He has written and edited several stories for Dark Brain, including enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 87
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God's Play, Columbia Underbelly, Tiki Tiki am giving sound to the Locked Out (due out in print as music in my head. I burn water, wet early as January 2012). His graphic fire. I'm from here but my roots are short stories have been published in there. I am a good book on the ICCW anthology comic anthology seafront, with sunsets robadoras IDWPresent FTL and British. pages. I think, though, never stop Upcoming projects include a thinking about thinking. I'm graphic novel called Blue Sparkles, dancing, sounds, looks, theater, to be published by MARCOSIA and film, poetry, poetry, literature, many other comics and prose. poetry. I am a tired Morivivi not die. Patricia O. (Patokata)-SEUD. - To live and die'm done. I am. I'm (Montevideo, Uruguay) sure one day I will finish it to find publishes texts of his own out. And who knows if I'm only an authorship in blogs and some blogs illusion and not anyone believe that shared. He has collaborated on I am. several literary magazines of the Payano Tejada, Ivan (Santo network. Currently working in Pen Domingo, 1977) Degree in and Inkwell Literary Magazine, psychology from the Autonomous Digital Magazine and Literary University of Santo Domingo, with Magazine miNatura words. It also expertise in marketing from the has its own micro column: "ravings same university. Member of of Muses" at Sharp Pen. It has Storytellers Literary Workshop published books themselves but Santo Domingo since 2010.Ha shares space with other authors in discovered his true calling in the the books published by the Cultural world of letters. It's faithful follower Sphere: That Other Stories of of writers like Juan Bosch, Ricardo Christmas and Porter, respectively, Piglia Yukio Mishima. View in the also in poetry anthologies I Am story and the novel forms of Woman Movement International expression. Women Poets Anthology of Literary Pichardo, Vincent Arturo Encounters First International (Santo Domingo, Dominican ELILUC. Republic, 1981) Graduate of the Paniagua, Mary (Dominican National School of Fine Arts Republic) Mention Student (ENBA), where he studied visual Creativity and Management artist, graduated in 2002, is an Advertising in the Autonomous architecture student at the University of Santo Domingo. Autonomous University of Santo Theater student at the National Domingo (UASD). He joined the School of Drama. Belonging to the Literary Workshop Manuel del Literary Workshop Litervolucion. Cabral (TLMC). Storytellers enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 88
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Workshop is coordinator of Santo Literary Workshop in Santo Domingo (TNSD). Some of his Domingo, has cultivated spaces stories have been published in the where poetry and narrative. His journal Litterãtus (North Santo writings have been published in Domingo, Dominican Republic) and anthologies Poetas de la Era (2011) Starting Point magazine, dedicated compiled by Elsa Baez and El Fondo to Literary Workshop Manuel del del Iceberg (2012) Literary Cabral (Ministry of Culture, Workshop Storytellers of Santo Dominican Republic). In the Domingo and Pandora Magazine. anthologies "Santo Domingo NO Lee to write and to live lives enough PROBLEM" Storytellers Workshop before dying. of Santo Domingo, in the book "Tales of never ending" the years) Professional reader for publication of the stories of the Literatura Fantástica (RBA's contest "Young National Short Story speculative fiction collection) and Award Book Fair 2011" and "The guest speaker at El Ojo de Polisemo bottom of the iceberg "Storytellers Translation Conference, organized Workshop second anthology of by the prestigious Pompeu Fabra Santo Domingo, December 2012. It University in Barcelona. has some micro-stories in the publication of the competition "I When time allows them, he and Concurs de Microrelats Negres of three close friends record the Bòbila (Barcelona, Spain)." He VerdHugos Podcast, national earned Honorable Mention in the reference and top iTunes podcast on National Short Story Prize Contest its genre. The VerdHugos Podcast Young Book Fair 2011. He was a covers not only Hugo Awards but all finalist in the "II Contest speculative fiction authors and Microstories of Terror in Honor of books. Edgar Allan Poe page He has been recently awarded for a Artgerusrt.com wed in December short story and is currently 2011." Won first place in the translating a mythological novel (to National competition talleristas V in be published in 2013) while the story line in April 2012. finishing his first fantasy novel. Pimentel Mendoza, Raisa Blog: (Santo Domingo, Dominican http://www.leemaslibros.com Republic, 1990) Student of Social Saldivar, Carlos Enrique Communication at the Autonomous (Lima, Peru, 1982) He studied University of Santo Domingo Literature at the UNFV. He is (UASD). Member Workshop director of the print magazine "Litervolución" Storytellers and Argonautas and fanzine El horla, enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 89
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico also he is a member of the editorial films which were made available on board of the virtual fanzine Agujero the Internet and he finished his first Negro, all publications devoted to novel in 2012, for which he is Fantasy Literature. He published currently seeking an editor. reviews, articles, poems and stories Signes Urrea, Carmen Rosa in various blogs and magazines. His (Castellón, Spain, 1963) stories and poems have appeared in Ceramist, photographer and some peruvian and international illustrator. Has been writing since anthologies. He was a finalist of the childhood, has published works on Andromeda of speculative fiction websites, blogs and digital awards 2011 in the category: short magazines (Magazine Network story. He has published three Science Fiction, Scientist, books: Historias de ciencia ficción NGC3660, Portal CIFI miNatura (2008), Horizontes de fantasía Digital Magazine, not so brief (2010) and El otro engendro Briefs, chemically impure, Gust (2012). He compiled selection Nido flashes, Letters to dream, preached. de cuervos: cuentos peruanos de com, The Great Pumpkin, terror y suspenso (2011). Cuentanet, Blog Count stories, Blog: Monelle's book, 365 contes, etc.). www.fanzineelhorla.blogspot.com He wrote under the pseudonym Sánchez Rivera, Rafael J. Monelle. Currently manages several (Seville, Spain, 1987) With a blogs, two of them related to Digital degree in Business Management Magazine miNatura that co-directs and Administration from the with her husband Ricardo Acevedo, Universidad de Sevilla, Rafael a publication specializing in micro combines his professional work story and the fantasy genre short with writing and other hobbies such story. He has been a finalist in as music and cinema. He has been a several competitions and micro member of the board of directors of story short story: the first two the spanish webpage editions of the annual contest Owl www.losporquesdelanaturaleza.com Group, in both editions of the since 2011, where he also regularly pageant Letters fairy tale dream, I publishes cultural, scientific, and Contest horror short story the boy informative articles. square; mobile Literature Contest 2010, magazine Jan. He has served He also studied image editing and as a juror in competitions both he is an enthusiast for digitally literary and ceramic, and retouching photographs. conducting photography He also collaborated and wrote workshops, ceramics and literary. scripts for non-professional short enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 90
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Shua, Ana María (Argentina, Graffiti s of soul. Support 1951- ) Has published over forty Psiconauta magazine. books in numerous genres: novels, Zarco Rodríguez, Jorge short stories, poetry, drama, (Spain, 1973) From 10 to 11 years children's fiction, books of humor has been in love with science fiction, and Jewish folklore, anthologies, horror and fantasy that always film scripts, journalistic articles, daydreaming allowed at all times and essays. Her writing has been and monitor the situation without a translated into many languages, rude awakening. including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, I write from 12 for pure hobby or Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, and to get rid of nightmares everyday Serbian, and her stories appear in and reviews published in fanzines anthologies throughout the on film from 20. world. She has received numerous Illustrators: national and international awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Pág. 52 Alfonso, Graciela and is one of Argentina’s premier Marta (Buenos Aires, living writers. Argentina) To see Writers. Stewart, Steven J. (USA) Was Pág. 36 Angel Diener, Sacha awarded a 2005 Literature (Switzerland, 1974) Character Fellowship for Translation by the Development & Digital Painter, National Endowment for the FantasyFlight Games. I am workin Arts. His book of translations of as an traditional and cg artist since Spanish poet Rafael Pérez 1993 in 2d and 3d. For me, Art is Estrada, Devoured by the more than all a way to live out Moon (Hanging Loose Press, 2004), whats moving me, i always was was a finalist for the 2005 PEN- open and hungry for the new and USA translation award. He has challanging. In my over 14 years of published two books of the short working as a cgartist, i always tried fiction of Ana María Shua to head for find the best possible (Microfictions (University of result in a deadline, since artwork is Nebraska Press, 2009) and Without a part of me and one of the most a Net(Hanging Loose Press, 2012). personal thinkable works. He currently lives in Rexburg, As for personal projects, inside me, Idaho. create worlds and creatures, all kind Texy Cruz (Canary Islands, of characters, and the visual Spain. 32 years) Has been storytelling is my passion and my involved with winnings from pleasure. When I look back my Paroxismo literario, Imperatur, whole life, i think since i was 4 years enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 91
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico old there never has been a way i did (2006). Prize: Melocotón Mecánico not draw or paint. And over all these (2006). years I did practice daily to get a Pág. 49 Berger, Pascal small step closer to bring the ideas (Nivelle, Belgium) SFx expert. and visions to life i have in front of Graduated Athénée Royal Riva Bella my inner eye. Art is my passion and Braine l'Alleud (Liege). Study my first love, ever, and to live that design advertising Institut Sainte- life is a privelege and a gift I see as Marie. Owner B.fx. He has worked responsebilety to make the best of in various commercial and film: this I can. I hope you enjoy my 9mm (Taylan Barman), Glenn personal portfolio. (Marc Goldstein) JCVD (Mabrouk http://www.facebook.com/photo. El Mechri) among others. php?fbid=5119346806&set=a.44110 http://www.pascalberger.be 26806.4771.649741806&type=3&th eater Pág. 15 Butkus, Mike (EE.UU.) Character and set designs, and http://thefirstangel.deviantart.co conceptual development for the m/gallery gaming and motion picture http://thefirstangel.cgsociety.org/ industry. Some of the work that I gallery/ enjoy doing most are finished movie Pág. 30 Becerra, Mijo (Spain) poster illustrations. Ilustrator. Was trained at Otis Parsons in Los Pág. 42 Belushi, Pedro Angeles and the Art Center College (Madrid, Spain, 1965) Illustrator of Design in Pasadena, California. of book covers, comics and cartoons He has taught illustration and and fanzines such as Bucanero or rendering techniques, along with miNatura. His work has been shown character design and visual at international festivals such as: development, to art industry The Great Challenge: Amnesty professionals and commercial art International, The Cartoon Art students. Mike has worked on more Trust and Index on Censorship. than 2,500 films in the areas of South Bank, London (1998) or advertising, movie poster art, set Eurohumor; biennale of sorriso design, and character design. Mike (Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo. Italia) also invented and illustrated XIII International Exhibition of hundreds of characters for Graphic Humor: Foundation of the Lucasfilms' Shadow of the Empire. University of Alcalá de Henares. Clients include Paramount, Warner Madrid. Spain, Rivas com.arte Brothers, Universal, Disney, RivasVaciamdrid. Madrid, Spain. DreamWorks, and LucasArts, as well as a number of toy companies enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 92
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico that employ his imaginative writing workshops The Framers creations and conceptual renderings Workshop and Seven and works as for product design. Mike lives in Los an illustrator of covers and stories Angeles, CA. to magazines Alpha Eridani, Some Current Projects: Production Scientist, miNatura (whose cover designs for Mr. Popper´s Penguins, won the Ist prize Illustration II º production designs for Lord of the PIEE 2009), The Library Fosca, Rings gaming. HBO's Boardwalk NGC 3660, Aurora Bitzine, Empire, HB0's Mildred Pierce, Men Chronicles of the Forge, NM, Next, in Black 3, Abraham Lincoln published by Editions Ayarmanot Vampire Slayer, HBO's Board to paper. Death, HB0's True Blood, Phineas & Pág. 4, 12, 26, 50 Castelló Ferb, Green Lantern. Dark Escrig, Rafa (Castellón de La §hadows, Two and a Half Men, Plana, Spain, 1969) Graduate Happy Feet 2, Ronin 47. Barbie, School of Arts and Crafts in Money Ball, Prey. Bio Shock, Castellón specializing in Graphic Resurrection 3, A Gifted Man. Clash Design (1993). Poster designer, of the Titans, Memphis, Star Wars illustrator and artist, currently Darth Maul paintings, Ringer, Rock combines his work in local of Ages, Street Fighter, Ghost Rider, government in a small municipality Darkness, X-Men, The Smurfs, in the province of Castellón with Reckoning, The third book, Fallen their creative work. He recently Angels is now sold in all major book participated in the exhibition of his stores. drawings and paintings in the First Last projects: Gulliver´s Travels. Mostra Traditional Sant Joan de l'm also working on the character Moro (Castellón) and at the 16th and set designs for the new t.v. edition of the Art Fair Pasearte in series called Bugzz and Dr, Hill. I Castellón de la Plana. have two books out called How to Pág. 34, 74, 75 Charro Draw Zombies and How to Draw Martínez, Javier (Leon, Spain, Vampires. 1980) Architect, designer and http://www.mikebutkus.net/ illustrator born in Leon in 1980 and moved to Las Palmas a few months Pág. 42, 51 Carper, Mario old. Through his father, a painter in Cesar (San Fernando, Buenos his youth, began his passion for the Aires, Argentina) writer, art of painting that later developed illustrator, writer and cartoonist. between the worlds of comics and His background includes Script and illustration fantastic. After working drawing cartoons, Plastic and on an animated short made entirely Design deInteriores. Participate in of graphite, in 2003 began enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 93
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico publishing illustrations for RPGs. films-The Impossible, Copito de Since then began working as a Nieve, Rec 3, etc.-, commercials, CD freelance illustrator, combining covers among other works. with a degree in architecture. http://j21studio.blogspot.com.es/ In 2006 he established in Madrid Pág. 22 Dibujante nocturno – working as a creative architect SEUD.- (Tenerife, Canary known study Spanish while Islands, Spain) Began his career continuing his career as an at the late age of 18, finding his true illustrator. It is in summer 2010 passion in illustration. His artistic when finally decides to focus on the skills are entirely self-taught. latter, starting new projects and Feeling a great appreciation and covering a larger number of orders. respect for all art forms, is always Account in their curriculum with accompanied by pencil and paper. over 200 illustrations published by And found in the digital art medium national and foreign publishers in in which to develop their fantasies. different media as covers of novels, Websites: role playing, cards, magazines and board games, to atmospheres of www.dibujantenocturno.com fantasy, science fiction and horror www.dibujante- among others. nocturno.deviantart.com Collaborations: Fantasy Flight Pág. 39, 58 Didizuka –SEUD. Games (USA) Mongoose Publishing – (France) Designer. I love the (UK), Moon Design Publications fact that her angels are associated (UK) Hero Games (USA); Mythic with colors. There has been much Dreams / Crafty Games (USA) question about the sex of the angels, Team Jabbwerocky (USA); Editorial but what would their color be??? Shadow (Spain); Worlds epic Maybe Didizuka knows the (Spain) SL communication answer... :) Dobleuve (Spain) She is an extremely talented artist Personal website: with a strong personality and a huge www.charroart.com creative potential. She has been Pág. 6, 8 Ciruelo (Argentina) working on various projects http://www.dac- including illustrations, bandes editions.com/about.htm dessinées, creation of videos to advertize for comics by various Pág. Diaz, Joseph 24 (Spain) publishers. She was the main Freelance concept artist and creator of the animation part of Le illustrator. He has worked in Rat Bleu, a mixed show which different Spanish and international included stage performance, music, enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 94
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico animation. Cindy also publishes her Pág. 43 Herrera, Mauricio (La own fanzine called E-Crucify. Serena, Chile, 1975) Worked as Here are her sites: an illustrator since 1995. https://www.facebook.com/didizu Government initiatives to “Visual ka?ref=ts&fref=ts Editions” Devil’s character, his country’s first comic to make use of https://www.facebook.com/Didizu digital color. kaArt In 1999, being an independent http://didizuka.free.fr artist presents a concept the http://didizuka.deviantart.com company Salo card game called “Myths and Legends” which would http://crucify.coolbb.net/index.ht be liable as a graphical editor for m over 6 years, designing his style and Pág. 101 Espinosa, José visual codes over the years and Gabriel (Murcia, Spain, 1979) bringing his artistic team Begins his training in the Bachelor illustrators. of Fine Arts, which crowns the It has since been dedicated to Studies in Illustration and Graphic making art for various companies, Design in Murcia. Beside that working on projects such as: “God complements your resume with of War Chains of Olympus” (two training and graphic design, as well covers for psp). Art for the trading as other specific training in the field cards UFS “Soul Calibur 4″, of animation, comics and “Tekken 6″. Images for books role advertising illustration. The project of “Pathfinder.” Forgotten Gods (2008), while starting his career in the world of http://www.mauricio-herrera.com editorial illustration. Epic Worlds http://el- Publishing Group (2009), grimlock.deviantart.com/ specializing in fantasy literature. Terra Incognita (Worlds Epic, Pág. 3 James, Cassandra 2009), the latest work of famous (Australian) Comic artist who got genre bestseller Kevin J. Anderson. her first gig colouring Devil's Due It was recently awarded as an Publishing's 'The Toxic Avenger and illustrator revelation / 2010, by the other Tromatic Tales. prestigious American magazine, From there she moved onto Heavy Metal Magazine Fantastic illustrating stories for a number of Fantasy. The Gathering anthologies, working http://artofjosegabriel.jimdo.com with industry greats such as Gail Simone (Wonder Woman, Batgirl) and Sterling Gates (Supergirl, Hawk enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 95
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico and Dove.) And produced work for Show in the Athens Horror Film the record-breaking Festival. 'Womanthology' Kickstarter from I want to work in the IDW. music/movie/book/photography In 2012 Cassandra pencilled, inked business by manipulation photos or and coloured the art for a 42-page creating concept artworks for back up story Alex De Campi's movies,cd's commercials and book 'Valentine' trade paper back, covers. published by Image comics. Pág. 46 Kiani Amin, Ali Cassandra has also worked on a (Teheran, Iran) Illustrator. number of sketch card sets Graduated from the University of including HACK/SLASH, Lady Fine Arts in Tehran. Death and Shi. http://ali-kiani-amin.cghub.com/ http://heartofglitter.deviantart.co Pág. 14 Komixmaster –SEUD. m –(Colombia) Cartoonist and http://cassandrajames.daportfolio illustrator. Research and experience .com/ different techniques and 3D Pág. 16 Kakava, Virginia illustration. MAGAZINE illustrator (Athens, Greece) Digital Art/Art 2001 science fiction and horror Commissions/Photo- SIRIUS Madrid Team. Robot World manipulation/Digital Photo cartoonist, and magazine Edit/CD layouts/CD Alfaeridiani and miNatura. Artwork/Merchandise Art. Collaborating several electronic I have an I.B Diploma (2005 journals Science Fiction. graduate year). I studied Pág. 45, 53 Leong, Sonia (UK) Art&Design at: Duncan of Professional artist and illustrator jordanstone college of art and specializing in anime/manga style design (2005-2007); AKTO Art& comics. Is an award-winning Manga Design in collaboration with artist and Company Secretary of Middlesex University (2008-2010). UK-based Sweatdrop Studios. I have worked so far with a couple Known for Manga Shakespeare: of bands by creating their CD Romeo and Juliet (SelfMadeHero) she's worked with Tokyopop, Image, Also have done several Art NEO Magazine, Channel 4, Harper- Commissions. Collins, Hachettes, Walker and So far i have done only two Art others on over eighty publications shows: Art Degree Show (2010); Art across magazines, comics/graphic novels, children's books, art books enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 96
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico and film/TV projects. She teaches commissions for publishers and about Manga, appearing at the Hay individuals. Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum, Pág. 21 Martínez Burkett, London County Hall and Pablo (España) To see Writers. internationally with the British Council. Her art's been featured in Pág. 54 Mateo Serra, Vicente the Kyoto International Manga (Valencia, Spain) Among other Museum and London Cartoon things coordinator illustrated novel Museum. She also provides product ilustratura-together and illustrator demonstrations on behalf of Copic, in illusionary 3, both charitable Letraset, Wacom and Promethean. projects. http://sonialeong.deviantart.com/ Blog: http://elsitiodetico.blogspot.com http://fyredrake.net/ Pág. 59, 60 Mignola, Mike https://www.facebook.com/leong. (EE.UU.) sonia http://www.artofmikemignola.com http://sonia-leong.tumblr.com/ /Bio https://twitter.com/sonia_leong Pág. 18, 32 Neko Punch – Pág. 20, 48 Lew, Sara SEUD.– (France) Ilustrator. She (Argentina, 1974) To see Writers. had the idea to draw demons in card suites. Imagine the success Pág. 1, 40 Marcos DK Prieto – something like that would have in a SEUD.– (Spain) Epic fantasy casino). lover, writer and illustrator autodidact. In 2008 I started "I was born in France from writing stories of gender and, as I Venezuelan parents. I learned art by have always been very fussy and myself, I love drawing comics and demanding, a year later I started learning new languages. doing the first illustrations to My style is influenced by accompany them. Currently everything I see, so I don't think it is working on the first part of a fantasy settled already, I'll continue novel called The Rise of the Races, learning until I find my own: My whose news and developments can wish is for everyone to follow their be followed on the Web or on your dreams and never let them go" www.larebeliondelasrazas.com fan- Her sites: http://x-nekopunch- page x.deviantart.com/ Internet: https://www.facebook Facebook: https://www.facebook.c .com / larebeliondelasrazas. om/Nekopunchz Currently I combine creating illustrations for my stories with enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 97
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Pág. 37 Ntousakis, Vaggelis Sci-Fi Channel, History Channel, (Crete, Greece) Lives and works Activision, Eidos, Hasbro, Atari, on the island of Crete. In 1990 he Village Roadshow, Wizards of the had a brief Magazine and fantasy as Coast, Rebellion, Titan Books, diving accident and became a Games Workshop, Upper Deck quadriplegic. From an early age, I Entertainment, Johnny Depp's am fascinated with anything related Infinitum Nihil, Will Smith's to the horror, the weird and strange. Overbrook Entertainment and And spent hours together between many more. the paintings of Bosch, Goya and Nick has also created artwork for Brugel. At eleven, fell into his hands World of Warcraft, Magic the a book of terror and discovered Gathering and comic book Robert E. Howard, Arthur Machen, publishers including Marvel Derleth among others, but his Comics, 2000AD (Judge Dredd, greatest and most striking finding Slaine), BOOM! Studios (Clive was the work of H. P. Lovecraft. Barker's Hellraiser), Devil's Due That influenced its creation all Publishing, IDW Publishing, child and began to consume FANGORIA Magazine and Radical everything related to fantasy Publishing. literature, film, music, graphic novel He is currently developing projects and art in general. Fell in love with for Film & TV and is the creator, the films of series B of the '70s and writer and illustrator of the award- '80s and the great stories of winning and Eagle nominated 2000AD, such as Sline, Judge apocalyptic fairytale, LEGENDS: Dredd and 13th Floor. The Enchanted - an original In the 90 studied graphic design in hardcover graphic novel published Athens and in 2000 returned to by Radical Books. Crete where does my business. LEGENDS: The Enchanted is in Without leaving my personal development for the big screen by projects in the digital illustration. acclaimed director/producer Ron Pág. 41 Percival, Nick (UK) Howard and his production Award-winning illustrator and CG company, Imagine Entertainment. animation director specializing in Links to Nick's artwork: high-detail concept/production artwork for Film, Videogames and www.nickpercival.com TV. http://twitter.com/nickpercival His clients include Sony, EA, Pág. 13 Rubert, Evandro Marvel Entertainment, Microsoft (Brazil, 1973) Can not remember Game Studios, MTV, Warner Bros., much more than the electric train enero- febrero, 2013 # 124 Revista Digital miNatura 98
Revista de lo breve y lo fantástico and the mountain of comics from web. his childhood. Along with Sergio http://shinemaru.deviantart.com/ Abad and David Baldeón among Pág. 44 Vianello, Piero others, Comics Otracosa founded (Venice, Italy, 1982) freelancer about 15 years ago, and has since illustrator and concept artist. been heavily involved in the world of comics. Today is Editor and Chief http://eidenet.deviantart.com/ of Epicenter and Sergio Abad http://eidenet.cghub.com/ teaches Bullets Comics and http://www.creaturespot.com/ Narrative at the University Jaume I of Castellón. Also painted lead Pág. 17, 28 VURORE –SEUD. figurines and plays drums with – (France) illustrator. Is an Panic Idols. extremely gifted artist working in various styles and skilfully Pág. 5 Signes Urrea, Carmen associating various styles too. In the Rosa (España) To see Writers. bio I asked her to send me, she Pág. 38 Shinemaru Ayami- wrote that she is "a self-taught artist SEUD. - (Icod, Santa Cruz de in drawing and coloring techniques; Tenerife, Spain, 1988) From always trying to improve her style young always been interested in albeit never having enough time for fantasy and science fiction, this. She is working on various becoming a connoisseur of the projects including comics and subject through different movies illustrations for books for young and series, as well as different RPGs adults, she also spends time in and being interested in the world of creating and working for fanzines." drawing through different I am –Sissy Pantelis- collaborating cartoonists and illustrators like Luis with Aurore on a project that will be Royo. In 2006 entered the race of published by MARKOSIA - it is Fine Arts at the University of La called "Blue Sparkles". I am always Laguna (ULL), leaving it in 2008 amazed at Aurore's work. I send you and returning in 2009, where he is a lovely angel and a seductive she- currently pursuing undergraduate demon by her. 5th year, specializing in the field of illustration. http://vurore.deviantart.com/ In 2010 he opened an account at
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About the Illustrations: Pág. 01 Insurrección/ Marcos DK Prieto (Spain) Pág. 03 The dark mother’s embrace/ Cassandra James (Australia) Pág. 04 St/ Rafa Castelló (Spain) Pág. 05 FrikiFrases (póster)/ Carmen Rosa Signes Urrea (Spain) Pág. 06 The Dungeon/ Ciruelo (Argentina) Pág. 08 HOBSYLLWIN in The Chak/ Ciruelo (Argentina) Pág. 12 St/ Rafa Castelló (Spain) Pág. 13 Miedo, Mentiras y Tinta China: Demonios… y más Demonios/ Rubert (Brazil) Pág. 14 Biblioteca del Nostromo/ Komixmaster –SEUD.− (Colombia) Pág. 15 St/ Mike Butkus (EE.UU.) Pág. 16 Art Of Sin/ Virginia Kakava (Greece) Pág. 17 Diablotine/ Vurore –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 18 3 trefles/ Neko Punch –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 20 St. / Sara Lew (Argentina) Pág. 21 Miguel derrotado por Shaitan (foto)/ Pablo Martínez Burkett (Argentina) Pág. 22 Serie Infierno. El guardián de la llanura/ Dibujante Nocturno –SEUD.− (Spain) Pág. 24 Ceremony of the dark cult/ Joseph Díaz (Spain) Pág. 26 St/ Rafa Castelló (Spain) Pág. 28 Angelot/ Vurore –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 30 St. / Mijo Becerra (Spain) Pág. 32 Demon card/ Neko Punch –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 34 Fallen/ Javier Charro (Spain) Pág. 36 Divided heart/ Sacha Angel Diener (Switzerland) Pág. 37 The Pit/ Vaggelis Ntosakis (Greece) Pág. 38 Azroth/ Shinemaru Ayami –SEUD.− (Spain) Pág. 39 Ange Bleu/ Didizuka –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 40 When canvas starts to burn/ Marcos DK Prieto (Spain) Pág. 41 The Bionic Woodlands -graphic novel, Legends The Enchanted/ Nick Percival (UK) Pág. 42 Shocks (cómic frag.)/ M. C. Carper (Argentina) & Pedro Belushi (Spain) Pág. 43 St. / Mauricio Herrera (Chile) Pág. 44 Wraith Exercise/ Piero Vianello (Italy) Pág. 45 Angel Chibi/ Sonia Leong (UK) Pág. 46 Face of god/ Ali Kiani Amin (Iran) Pág. 48 St. / Sara Lew (Argentina) Pág. 49 Don’t turn your back (concept character for a movie)/ Pascal Berger (Belgium) Pág. 50 St. / Rafa Castelló (Spain) Pág. 51 Sabbath demon/ M. C. Carper (Argentina) Pág. 52 Fuego Fatuo/ Graciela Alfonso (Argentina) Pág. 53 Demonchibi/ Sonia Leong (UK) Pág. 54 Eldur/ Vicente Mateo Serra (Spain) Pág. 55 Hell’s Mouth, Stradford-on-Avon (950 a. C.) Pág. 58 The Bet/ Didizuka –SEUD.− (France) Pág. 59 The first drawing of Hellboy / Mike Mignola (EE.UU.) Pág. 60 Art for Capital City Distribution´s Calendar (color: Matt Hollingsworth)/ Mike Mignola (EE.UU.) Pág. 74 Allwënn: Soul & Sword/ Javier Charro (España) Pág. 75 Allwënn: Soul & Sword/ Javier Charro (España) Pág. 101 Ángeles y Demonios/ José Gabriel Espinosa (Spain)
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