The Price of War and Another Stunning Stories

By Miguel Huertas, Jesús Manrique, Miguel Ccasani and 3 more

In this issue there is a short story by the experienced Peruvian author Miguel Ángel Vallejo. It is the story of a Peruvian who enters a strange sect that seems to be out of this world. It is followed by another short story by the distinguished writer Sergio Mars. In this story, we will travel to a distant future in which new ways of working together with old ethical dilemmas arise. Román de la Cruz introduces us to a character besieged with his own mind. Then, Miguel Ccasani challenges our imagination with a story that brings us closer to what might be behind social networks. It makes us wonder: “Is what exists on the net real?” Jesus Manrique, on the other hand, introduces us to a mysterious passenger and a taxi driver who will fall prey to his own destiny. The last story is written by the fabulous Spanish author Miguel Huertas. In this story, a mysterious soldier will have to deal with a monster that ravages a small village. Along the way, he realizes that people can be more dangerous than the monsters themselves. The story has inspired the author to write his first epic fantasy novel, which will soon be published in Spanish and English.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ACUEDI Ediciones
• Release date: Feb 27, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463021224

Miguel Huertas

Miguel Huertas (Madrid, 1991), autor de El peso del acero (Acuedi Ediciones, 2018) y Aurora negra (Amarante, 2016). En 2015 fue uno de los seleccionados para participar en el libro de relatos Lovecraft. Mitos de Fuenlabrada, publicado por Kelonia Editorial.Desde 2014 ha publicado una quincena de relatos cortos en revistas y antologías, entre las que destacan Almiar, La bolsa de pipas, Calabazas en el Trastero o Sueños de la Gorgona.En 2012 resultó finalista del II Certamen de Cuentos Infantiles Reescritos con Perspectiva de Género con el relato El llanto de los dragones.Colabora asiduamente con Relatos Increíbles, revista de ficción especulativa, y desde 2016 forma parte de su comité editorial.Es psicólogo por la Universidad Complutense y se dedica a la atención psicológica en Madrid.

Book preview

© 2018 Asociación por la Cultura y Educación Digital (ACUEDI)

© 2018 Miguel Huertas, Sergio Mars, Román de la Cruz, Miguel Ccasani, Jesús Manrique y Miguel Ángel Vallejo.

Director: Héctor Huerto Vizcarra

Editorial committee: Daniel Salvo, Sergio Mars, Víctor Conde, Otilia Navarrete, Christian Campos Alvarado, Miguel Huertas, Tanya Tynjälä, Paola Arana y Daniel Arteaga

Translator: María Azul Bassi

Editor: Paola Arana Vera

Cover design: Rafo Núnjar Tovar

Illustration: Luis Morocho

Diagramming: Héctor Huerto Vizcarra y Daniel Arteaga Ferruzo

Magazine: Stunning Stories. The Best Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy Stories from Latin America and Spain

N° 1: September 2018

ISSN: 2413-9017

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Writers

Miguel Ángel Vallejo Sameshima

Sergio Mars

Román de la Cruz

Miguel Ccasani Condo

Jesús Manrique Castillo

Miguel Huertas

Translator

María Azul Bassi

(Laboulaye, 1998) is an argentinian writer. She has won literature competitions in her town and has written short stories such as Regalo and Centenario de una Guerra. She is currently majoring in English translation. She enjoys playing the violin and learning new languages..

Miguel Ángel Vallejo

(Lima, 1983) has a bachelor’s degree in literature from the National University of Saint Marcus (Peru). He is the co-director of Altazor magazine. His most famous works were both the book of testimonies Vallejo Urreta. Historias de una familia peruana (2016), with memories of the Peruvian family, and Monstruos de ayer, hoy y mañana.

Sergio Mars

(Valencia, 1976) is a spanish sci-fi, fantasy and horror writer. He has published about fifty stories and six books since 2002. He has won four Ignotus awards. In 2012, he created Cápside editorial. Since 2007, he has been publishing in Rescepto Indablog.

Román de la Cruz

(Callao, 1991) is an illustrator and has a bachelor’s degree in literature from the National University of Saint Marcus (Peru). He has collaborated in editorial projects such as Plesiosauro magazine, Delirium Tremens magazine, and Atuqpa Chupan, a magazine in Quechua. At the moment, he publishes on the Internet under the pseudonym Portafobias.

Miguel Ccasani

(Ica, 1990) is a history student at the National University of Saint Marcus. Nowadays, he is a member of the cultural group Tela Verde. He is also part of the University Theater of Peru and he has written theatrical adaptations for it. He has published in El Bosque Nr3 magazine and has written on other virtual media platforms.

Jesús Manrique

(Lima, 1977) is a Systems Technician and is a Public Relationships graduate. Nowadays, he works as a supervisor in Human Resources. His beginnings in literature were through RPG’s, and then he moved the challenge to his blog, Deadman Joking.

Miguel Huertas

(Madrid, 1991) is a psychologist who studied at Complutense University of Madrid. Some of his stories have been published by magazines such as Valinor, Falsaria, Almiar, La bolsa de pipas or Calabazas en el Trastero. o Calabazas en el Trastero.

Editorial

Are you a passionate reader of fantasy, science fiction and horror genres? Would you like to meet new authors and truly amazing stories? If your answer to both questions is yes, this is your perfect opportunity. Stunning Stories is undoubtedly one of the best magazines of its kind in Latin America and Spain. In this magazine, you can find the best Spanish-language authors of the day.

In fact, this is the first time a Spanish language magazine has translated their stories into English so that they can be read by more people. This would not have been possible without the important and invaluable collaboration of our Argentine translator, Azul Bassi. Thanks to her, we can read in this first issue the stories that were published in our magazine in Spanish in 2015.

In this issue there is a short story by the experienced Peruvian author Miguel Ángel Vallejo. It is the story of a Peruvian who enters a strange sect that seems to be out of this world. It is followed by another short story by the distinguished writer Sergio Mars. In this story, we will travel to a distant future in which new ways of working together with old ethical dilemmas arise. Román de la Cruz introduces us to a character besieged with his own mind. Then, Miguel Ccasani challenges our imagination with a story that brings us closer to what might be behind social networks. It makes us wonder: Is what exists on the net real? Jesus Manrique, on the other hand, introduces us to a mysterious passenger and a taxi driver who will fall prey to his own destiny. The last story is written by the fabulous Spanish author Miguel Huertas. In this story, a mysterious soldier will have to deal with a monster that ravages a small village. Along the way, he realizes that people can be more dangerous than the monsters themselves. The story has