A 3-part Spanish story series
The Author of Her Own Soul
La autora de su propia alma
- Part 1: Ninety-One Percent of a Ghost
C1 Spanish · 5 min read
In 2071, a hospice android asks Guatemala's highest court to declare her a person. The prosecution answers with a single number—91%—and the name of a dead pop star the whole country still mourns.
- Part 2: The Man Who Faked Her Death
C1 Spanish · 6 min read
Somewhere above Lake Atitlán lives the man who built Rutilia, hid her from her owners, and signed her death certificate. She's about to knock on his door.
- Part 3: Everything Else
C1 Spanish · 5 min read
Can a soul be copyrighted? Guatemala's Constitutional Court is about to answer the strangest legal question of the century, and the prosecutor holding the evidence has been hiding who he really is. All that stands at the end is one memory of copal smoke, and the question of who it belongs to.