No. 18 (2026): Seeing with Other Eyes... Microfiction and Mystery

Among the greatest sources of artistic and literary inspiration are, without a doubt, those questions that touch upon what we still do not know about reality: mystery.

Naturally, microfiction (not only literary, but also theatrical, cinematic, and audiovisual) has also drawn from the vast catalog of themes and motifs linked to mystery—on the one hand, because of the strong interest that the occult and the paranormal awaken within the realm of fiction in general, and on the other hand, because these can be related to semiotic and structural features intrinsic to microfiction: ellipsis, informational gaps, the surprising and the unsettling, the micro, the invisible…

Accordingly, the wide thematic lines of this monograph will revolve around microtextuality, microfiction, and the micro-story, and their connections with: 1) matters of the Beyond: life after death, superconsciousness, NDEs, immortality…; 2) matters of the Here and Now: everyday enigmas, superstitions, serendipities, synchronicities…; 3) matters of Other Worlds: extraterrestrials, UFOs, UAPs, abductions, contactism…; 4) paranormal phenomena: ghostly existence, apparitions, EVP, possessions, exorcisms, infestations, hauntings, apport phenomena…; 5) parapsychological phenomena: telepathy, premonition, prophecy, precognition, remote viewing, clairvoyance, levitation, clairscentience or osmogenesis…; 6) the domain of the oneiric: lucid dreams, astral travel, nightmares…; 7) supernatural powers: thaumaturgy, magic, witchcraft, sorcery…; 8) extraordinary objects: Ouija boards, tarot cards, relics, talismans, voodoo dolls, cursed dolls…; 9) divinatory and healing practices on the margins: astrology, cartomancy, palmistry, mediumship, santería, folk healing, blessing rituals…; 10) the sphere of the religious and the sacred: mystery schools, pseudo-religions or sects, secrets of sacred art…; and 11) scientific enigmas: the quantum self, dark energy, cryopreservation, the future of AI…