LA LITERATURA ES LARGA, LOS CÓMICS SON CORTOS.¿CANSADO DE BUSCAR EL TIEMPO QUE HAS PERDIDO CON PROUST? ¿Desearías que La insoportable levedad del ser te resultara mucho más leve y algo menos insoportable?...

Letter To An Unborn CongresswomanA law student writes to an unborn congresswoman offering a legislative proposal to protect the rights of unborn babies. "Let's legally connect abortion rights for women...

The Casual Sacrifice A woman writes to a man who mocked her to impress his friends. "Belonging is magic. It automatically creates an identity. It elevates people. It makes them feel important, respected....

The Sisyphean Love Affair A man writes to a woman he hopelessly loves about their only hope. "Loving others the way we want is easy; loving them the way they need is difficult; this is a mistake we both...

Acrobatics In The Hall Of MirrorsA woman writes to a mother she's never met about family and parenting."So, what is family? Custom? Necessity? Social acceptance? Selfish motives? It's all of that. But...

Antigone's PathA young woman writes to her mother about personal choices, security and Freedom."You value what makes life more secure and comfortable; I value what makes life more free and meaningful....

The Loser Takes It AllA young man writes to his powerful parents about wealth, love, privilege and survival.   "You told me many times that if I stay with Mia I will lose everything. That I am a sucker,...

Room 525  A woman writes to her husband her farewell letter."I thought the fight was with you, your mother, friends, relatives, other women. No. The fight was with me. The fight is always with ourselves....

It's A Creep's World A woman writes and offers to a creep an essay on creeps."I called you to say that I was attacked on my way home; that I was very lucky to escape; that I had bruises, scratches and...

Item Currently Unavailable An unavailable item apologizes to an excited buyer."I have many admirers, or at least some of my body parts have many admirers. The list of worries that would end tomorrow if...

Ultimatum To Stranger A woman receives an ultimatum from a scary stranger, her father."You had your fun; you made you mother cry, you made me upset, you made what's-his-name feel important. Now, come...

The Invisible Tide A grain of sand writes about loss."Life can't always go on. Sometimes life cannot go on. Sometimes it stops. Sometimes it's a disgrace when life goes on. The loss of every person we...

Reality Intolerant A woman offers to an admirer and to Reality word paintings for arguments."My Past is scary. As scary as a killer with an ax; as scary as a voice in one's head; as scary as a shadow...

All The Things You Said And All The Things I Didn't A woman writes to the man who loves her about the man who doesn't. "Money. Every humiliation I have ever suffered was because of money. Every joy I...

Be afraid, be very afraid of Terrifying Tales, the sixth volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading.Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa...