An exposition of Canon Lizardi's letter / Bernardo Atxaga -- The raincoat / Max Aub -- The kiss / Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -- Fables, 9, 10 and 10a / Juan Benet -- The catalyst / Juan Benet -- The desert / Pere Calders -- Beyond death / Noel Clarasó -- No one / Isabel del Río -- The key / Isabel del Río -- Countdown/ Isabel del Río -- The little girl who had no wings / Pilar Díaz-Mas -- Concerning the death of Bieito / Rafael Dieste -- How my six cats died / Wenceslao Fernández Flórez -- How the tailor Bieito returned to hell / Ánxel Fole -- A face / Pere Gimferrer -- The stork-men / Juan Goytisolo -- The shooting gallery / Alberto Insúa -- The yellow rain / Julio Llamazares -- Gualta / Javier Marías -- No news from Gurb / Eduardo Mendoza -- The companion / José María Merino -- The lost traveller / José María Merino -- The one where she tells him a story / Juan José Millás -- Family life / Quim Monzó -- Gregor / Quim Monzó -- The preacher / Carlos Edmundo de Ory -- The woman who came back to life / Emilia Pardo Bazán -- The Holocanth / Joan Perucho -- My Cristina / Mercé Rodoreda -- From exile / Alfonso Sastre -- Cervantes' chickens / Ramón J. Sender -- The condemned man / José Ángel Valente -- My sister Antonia / Ramón del Valle-Inclán -- In search of the electrifying double act / Enrique Vila-Matas -- A poor man / Alonso Zamora Vicente.