Colonia Lindavista

Young man imagines his upstairs neighbors Pepe and Lupita's sex life since it interrupts his writing in the middle of the night.

The Secret of Evil

Joe Kelso the journalist receives a call late at night. Pale man meets him to discuss something and then the story ends.

The Old Man of the Mountain

Belano meets Lima; two wild suicidal ants who lead a following that doesn't care about anyone else.

The Colonel's Son

About a revolutionary movie. It's a zombie movie, hoamge to Romero, but it's like pure french political insanity. Colonel's Son and Julie flee the military base. July gets bit by a zombie and develops a hankering for raw meat, which makes her sick all over this store keeper's floor. While the keep is arguing with the Colonel's Son about the additional cost to clean up her filth, some Mexicans rob the store. A fight breaks out and they injure the storekeep to getaway. He runs after asking to be taken to a hospital and they oblige. Cops start chasing them and eventually start to shoot at their stolen vehicle. They kill the already-wounded shopkeep and Julie starts eating him in the backseat (this rules). Colonel's son is still in love with her, even though she's totes a zombie. The story pretty much just gets weirder from here

Scholars of Sodom

Writer stuck writing about a character named Nepal in Buenos Aires. He eventually becomes obsessed with sodomy instead of any of the other things that he might write about. Just like Nipal is obsessed with the violence and thoughtlessness in politics, the corresponding act (sodomy is viewed as the final means of taking possession) fills Nepal ineluctably with contempt, contempt for argentinians in general.

The Room Next Door

Guy shows off his gun, but refuses to loan it (unlike stolen cars and women, stolen guns cannot be loaned)

Labyrinth

Man describes the figures who appear in a photograph and imagines their lives

The Vagaries of the Literature of Doom

Meditations on Argentinian literature. All branches are reactions to Borges

I'm an Apollonian rat

The literature of doom has to exist. But if it's all that exists, it's the end of literature.

Crimes

Indifferent detective talks to a young journalist woman about another woman (27yrs old) who was stabbed to death 27 times. The man is not very comforting, and the journalist seems increasingly threatened by him. Even "the good guys" are not really good

I Can't Read

Man is criticized from all sides at a Chilean book fair

Beach

(Ex-) heroine addict tries to relax by the beach while he receives methadone. He notices an old couple by the beach who hangs out there all day

Muscles

This was almost certainly a draft manuscript of what would become A Little Lumpen Novelita. The brother is more of as stoic rather than a gymbro porn addict. He still brings home tow strangers (South Americans this time) who nair him and take him in his and his sister's parent's bedroom. Machiste mentioned again.

The tour

Tracks the rise and fall of a rock band from the 60s through the 80s. About loneliness. Reminds me of that one story from The Informers.

Daniela

About an Argentinian girl who sleeps with a ranch hand and is then dismissed back into the care of a ranch hand?

Suntan

Young performer who is taken advantage of

Death of Ulises

Belano returns to Mexico City for the first time in 20 years and elects to stay there.

The Troublemaker

Catalonian filmmaking provocateur who makes anti-war movies about Iraq. He makes one statement about being pro-Saddam Hussein and receives some feedback from a pretty girl (he gets oneshotted) that one can be anti-Iraq war without being pro-Saddam. He pivots accordingly to: "No war... death to the jews."

Sevilla Kills me

On the origins of Latin American Literature: fear. Not wanting to have to sell the body and soul to survive. Disruption doesn't sell tho, and so the safe formulaic stuff does sell and contributes to the death of literature.

The Days of Chaos

Belano's wife comes to visit him to let him know that their son Gerónimo. Something tragic going on here about a viscious cycle: parallel between father and son: Gerónimo is fifteen when he disappears, as was Arturo Belano (and Bolaño himself) when they made their own life-altering trips from Chile to Mexico

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