Cholos and alien hordes. Undead luchadores. Children trapped in animal form. Legless Vampires. Aztec merchant spies. A deadly ancient codex. From a pre-Colombian wilderness to ice-choked future, from haunted borderlands to post-apocalyptic ruins and all the lush but vicious worlds between, these fifteen tales reveal the hidden courage, despair, and depravity of people forced to face the darkness. Some overcome. A few surrender. The rest are consumed by vengeance.
Author
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas. He has written several award-winning titles, most notably THEY CALL ME GÜERO and MY TWO BORDER TOWNS His work has also been published in multiple anthologies, plus venues such as The New York Times, Strange Horizons, School Library Journal, Rattle, Translation Review, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. Additionally, David has worked on several TV/film projects. In 2019, he co-founded the hashtag and activist movement #DignidadLiteraria, which has negotiated greater Latinx representation in publishing. He is presently the vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
