SANTIAGO COPÍ · WRITING
Short Fiction
Stories where the ordinary shifts until it becomes something else.
Stories about memory, absence, invisible systems, and the exact moment when something ordinary stops being so.
FEATURED STORY
The Last Tree That Dreamed of Birds
The tree is the last of its forest and cannot move. It learns to dream of birds without needing them to stay forever.
ORIGIN COLLECTION
Four stories that share the same origin: the Valley — and a door that opens onto a fifth, beyond that mythology.
Cara Cortada and the Sixth FeatherCara Cortada finds a feather that doesn’t fit. She discovers that some shapes don’t need to be corrected to belong.Read →
Mellao and the Light That Didn’t Want to ReturnMellao finds a small light trapped between the rocks. Helping it home doesn’t take strength — just staying close.Read →
Robertín and the Thing That Wasn’t LostRobertín keeps in his drawer the things nobody wants. One day he starts finding paper stars that trace a path that isn’t for him.Read →
Chiquitín and the Sound in the RootsChiquitín hears a sound by the river. Not everything that calls needs to be found — some things just need space to find their own way out.Read →Illustrated short fiction
Stories where you provide the image.
What Cannot Be Corrected
In a system that eliminates error before it occurs, an anomaly appears where it should not: in the body.
The Place No One Looks
A story about what happens in the places adults have learned not to see.
What Grows Beneath the Silence
A story about what an entire town learns to keep quiet, until the earth decides to speak for it.
AFTER READING
A story ends on the page. What it leaves behind begins somewhere else.
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These texts belong to the same narrative territory that runs through the rest of my work. Request materials →
Every work begins long before the first book.
These texts belong to the same narrative territory that runs through the rest of my work.