Of the black and the dark, With water up to half the eye y Pearlescent Dusk and Other Stories They bring together short narratives from different records. The three collections share, however, a preference for moments in which everyday experience loses stability: a decision reveals latent violence, an official explanation hides its causes, or a historical episode allows for a fantastic reading.

The short story as a form of pressure

In a novel, meaning can be delayed and distributed among several plot lines. The story works with a more compressed space. This limitation favors ellipsis, a change of perspective and endings that force you to reconsider what you have read. In these collections, darkness does not always equate to crime or terror: it can be an unknown area of ​​consciousness, family guilt, or the inability to rationally explain behavior.

The tonal variety advises against reducing the three books to a single label. There are black, fantastic, psychological, historical and satirical stories. Their kinship comes rather from a common question about what the accepted versions leave out.

Of the black and the dark: consciousness, time and identity

The collection deals with decisive moments in which a character must interpret what happens to him with incomplete information. The narratives often start from a recognizable reality, but introduce shifts towards dreams, scientific speculation or metaphysical doubt. The effect does not depend only on a final twist: it is born from the coexistence between explanations that do not completely exclude each other.

The title distinguishes two neighboring fields. “The black” refers to damage, crime or human threat; “The dark” broadens the view towards what remains outside of knowledge. This breadth allows the volume to transition between crime story and speculative fiction without presenting uncertainty as a simple trick.

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With water up to half the eye: harm, responsibility and revenge

These stories focus on specific forms of evil: abuse of authority, grievance, pain, and desire for reparation. His perspective is not limited to identifying culprits. It also examines the narratives with which individuals and institutions justify their actions or conceal the causes of a misfortune.

Revenge occupies a problematic place. It can appear as an understandable response to injustice and, at the same time, as a mechanism that prolongs damage. This double movement prevents the collection from becoming a succession of exemplary punishments. The reader must evaluate not only what was done, but from what moral position it is told.

In the author’s blog you can read the volume presentation and one of his texts under the title «With water up to half the eye».

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Pearlescent Dusk and Other Stories: history, occultism and family memory

The volume contains three stories located in different environments. “Uproar in the Order” takes as its starting point the confrontation between W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley in the environment of London’s esoteric societies. The historical anecdote becomes fantastic material and allows us to observe the contrast between spiritual discipline, ambition and theatricality.

“Nacarado sunset” moves towards the family environment and builds its tension through evocation, the landscape and what is insinuated between generations. The change of setting and scale shows the elasticity of the collection: the unusual can arise both from an episode associated with European occultism and from a private memory.

To expand the reading, the author’s blog preserves a book summaryIn addition to the stories «Commotion in the order» y «Pearly sunset».

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Three entrance doors

Anyone looking for psychological and speculative stories can begin with Of the black and the dark. For a more frontal exploration of moral violence and revenge, With water up to half the eye offers the most defined axis. Pearlescent Dusk and Other Stories It is suitable for readers interested in the intersection between history, fantasy and memory.

The differences between the volumes are precisely their main interest when read together: they show how the same concern for the hidden part of the experience takes on very different narrative forms.

The rest of the works can be consulted in the Loft Library in Payhip, he Bubok catalog and the Smashwords profile.

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