An unexpected interlude between two characters / Jacqueline Herranz Brooks -- 13th parallel south / Angel Santiesteban Prats -- The waiting room / Arturo Arango -- Ten years later / Marilyn Bobes -- The hunter / Leonardo Padura Fuentes -- The tropics / Miguel Mejides -- Small creatures (from La orfandad del esplendor) / Carlos Olivares Baro -- Something is happening on the top floor / Reinaldo Arenas -- Miosvatis / Miguel Barnet -- A love story according to Cyrano Prufrock / Lourdes Casal -- Blind madness / Miguelina Ponte Landa -- Little poisons / Sonia Rivera Valdes -- Curriculum Cubense (from From Cuba with a song) / Severo Sarduy -- Skin deep / Antonio Benitez Rojo -- The charm / Pablo Armando Fernandez -- Dream with no name / Ramon Ferreira -- The storyteller / Onelio Jorge Cardoso -- The Great Baro / Virgilio Pinera -- Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier.