Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez is a writer who lives in Buenos Aires. Her short story collections Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Color illustration by Toma Vagner. A repeating illustration of an obese woman walking toward the right of the frame.

Fiction The Filth issue

Julie

By Mariana Enríquez

The original Spanish version of Mariana Enríquez’s short story “Julie,” which appears in the Filth issue.

Color illustration by Toma Vagner. A naked obese woman lies on her side. She is angled into the distance of the frame, with her feet looming in the foreground and her head almost hidden by her shoulder and breasts. Around her body are various small illustrative details, including potato chips and pills.

Fiction The Filth issue

Julie

By Mariana Enríquez

Julie had the dark dead eyes of a rat, untamable hair always standing on end, skin the color of wet sand.