Compulsive dreamer ; Things ; Velvet dress ; House of sugar ; Thus were their faces / S. Ocampo -- Story of Maria Griselda / M.L. Bombal -- Little island ; Boy who saw God's tears / L.M. Levinson -- Eternal fear ; I will return, Mommy ; How the little crocodiles cry /E. Orphee -- For friends and enemies ; And the wheel still spins / O. Orozco -- Mirror of melancholy ; Blood baths ; Severe measures / A. Piznarik -- Excerpts from The wild papers / M. Di Giorgio -- Excerpts from Dream time ; Other/other ; Fishing days / A.M. Shua -- Man in the Araucaria ; Blue stone emperor's thirty wives / S. Gallardo -- Condemned dress inn white ; Happiness ; Invisible embroidery / M. Sola -- Storm ; Welcome to Albany ; Widower / A. Diaconu -- Country carnival ; Legend fo the self-sufficient child / L. Valenzuela -- Viennese waltz ; Garcia's thousandth day ; Segismundo's better world / A. Steimberg -- Perfect married woman ; Letters from an English lady ; Under the flowering juleps ; Resurrection of the flesh / A. Gorodischer -- When everything shines / L. Hecker -- Annunciation / C. Peri Rossi -- Selections from Silendra / E. Subercaseaux -- Two words / I. Allende This anthology traces the history of fantastic literature in Chile and Argentina. The stories include fairy tales, science fiction, and metaphorical political tales Authors include: Isabel Allende, Maria Luisa Bombal, Alina Diaconu, Sara Gallardo, Marosa DiGiorgio, Angelica Gorodischer, Liliana Hecker, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Silvina Ocampo, Olga Orozco, Elvira Orphee, Alejandra Pizarnik, Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Maria Shua, Marcela sola, Alicia Steimberg, Elizabeth Subercaseaux, Luisa Valenzuela