Contributions by Ramiro Sanchiz
Ramiro Sanchiz (Montevideo, 1978) has published, among others, the following novels: El orden del mundo, Ficción para un imperio and La historia de la ciencia ficción uruguaya, as well as a book of short stories entitled Algunos de los otros. His stories have appeared in anthologies such as Hasta acá llegamos -relatos del fin del mundo, Buenos Aires Próxima, and Aventurero; and in magazines such as Lento, Otro Cielo, Specimens, Axxón, Próxima, and Narrativas. He regularly writes criticism and reviews for the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria.
Trees at Night
Ramiro Sanchiz
Translated by Audrey Hall
On the outskirts of Punta de Piedra, there is a bar a good distance beyond the last line of houses. From the untidy plain arises what is essentially a cube of gray concrete with small windows and a parking lot. Actually, to simulate the impression it always made on me when I looked at it—with the houses of Punta de Piedra in the distance and the plain stripped down to what the universe must have looked like hundreds of millions of years ago—I would have to resort to a simple, coarse, improbable image: an art nouveau building on some remote, uninhabited planet.
My grandfather used to go round there on Friday nights, but I wasn’t allowed to go with him. So one day in February 1990, my friend Marcos and I hopped on our bikes … Read More »
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