Apple y Rain

You made me very bad, Connor. And I am so glad. Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca....

Me llamo Márgara Averbach. Cuando era chica, mis padres, mi hermano y yo viajábamos mucho, siempre en auto. A San Salvador de Bahía, en Brasil; al Cuzco, en Perú; a Ushuaia por una ruta toda de ripio, no de pavimento como ahora. Eran días y días de auto y para que el viaje se nos hiciera más fácil, mi mamá nos leía en voz alta. Un libro a papá, el único que manejaba; un libro, a nosotros dos, en el asiento de atrás. En esos tiempos, lo confieso, a mí me gustaba tanto el viaje como el lugar al que llegábamos. Y me gustaba porque dentro del auto, el aire era todo historias. Desde ...

The Three Kings were enjoying the ongoing holiday revelry in Puerto Rico, feasting and leaving presents. Melchior overeats and falls asleep, taking the star of Bethlehem with him. His disappearance and recovery started the January tradition of Melchior's Feast, still celebrated in some parts of the Puerto Rican countryside.

When UmiCar competes in the Umi City Car Race, he races against a mean dump truck who plays tricks on the other racers.

Two short stories by Argentine author Ana Maria Shua including the title story about a young boy who, after realizing that everything in television is a lie, passes through a blue door into a world where everything is true.