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Isabel Allende: If You Touched My Heart
“If You Touched My Heart” (Si me tocaras el corazón) is a short story by Isabel Allende, published in 1989 in the book Cuentos de Eva Luna. Amadeo Peralta, raised in a family of violent and authoritarian men, learns from childhood that power is imposed with cunning and brutality. Forced…
Ray Bradbury: A Touch of Petulance
“A Touch of Petulance” is a short story by Ray Bradbury, published in 1980 in the anthology Dark Forces. The story begins on an ordinary afternoon when Johnathen Hughes, a young, newlywed accountant, takes his usual train and sits next to an older man reading a newspaper with a future…
Robert E. Howard: The Tower of the Elephant
“The Tower of the Elephant” is a sword and sorcery story written by Robert E. Howard, published in 1933 in the magazine Weird Tales. This story is one of the first adventures of the iconic character Conan the Barbarian, a Cimmerian warrior who faces the dangers of a world filled…
Juan Carlos Onetti: Hell so feared
“Hell so feared” (El infierno tan temido) is one of Juan Carlos Onetti’s most acclaimed short stories. Published in 1957 in the magazine Ficción and later collected in the book El infierno tan temido y otros cuentos (1962), it tells the story of the turbulent relationship between Risso, a widowed…
Arthur C. Clarke: Report on Planet Three
“Report on Planet Three” is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in May 1959 in Holiday magazine. Presented as an ancient Martian document, it describes the scientific observations made by astronomers on the red planet about Earth, its mysterious neighbor. Using data obtained with…
H. G. Wells: The Country of the Blind
“The Country of the Blind” is a short story by H. G. Wells, published in April 1904 in The Strand Magazine. It tells the story of a mountain guide who, during an expedition in the Andes, suffers an accident that leads him to a remote valley, isolated from the outside…
Jack London: Aloha Oe
“Aloha oe” is a short story by Jack London, initially published in December 1908 in Lady’s Realm magazine and later included in the collection The House of Pride (1912). On the Honolulu pier, an ocean liner prepares to set sail as a crowd bids farewell to a group of distinguished…
Arthur Conan Doyle: Lot No. 249
“Lot No. 249” is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in September 1892 in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. Set in Oxford, the story follows medical student Abercrombie Smith, whose academic routine is disrupted by disturbing news about his neighbor Edward Bellingham, an eccentric scholar, expert in Oriental languages,…
