Carlo Fuentas' Aura is a nice little short story about an obsessive narrator who is seduced by a witch(?). At least I think that's what happened. It reads like so many horror movies, especially when he recognizes the photos as himself and Aura.
But, I have to say, reading something written completely in the second person was interesting. Don't think I've ever read that. I liked th detail of the plants in the porch garden. It was interesting that they were all poisonous, but also interesting that the narrator could identify all of them.
The cats are ghosts of the ones she strangled, I think?
Overall, something a little Skinemax about it, like late night erotic horror b-movie, but still very well-written. He jumps from future to present tense, too. A very quick read.
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Undoubtedly a horror story--although a high-brow one. However, also a story about history and its impact. It is not an accident that Felipe Montero is a historian, or that the historical event referred to is the French Empire in Mexico.
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