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After a second, the computer switched me on. On the screen, I could see the story of the dinosaur
that had been writing me for a couple of days. Suddenly, the bell rang someone insistently at the
door. As anyone would expect, the door opened for me.
It was some pens that were selling an obese and sorry-looking woman. I said I wouldnt buy
anything, and the door slammed on me. After this abrupt and unpleasant interruption, the story on
the computer decided to carry on writing me.
Funny things, all of them face down and turned upside down, were read there about the dinosaur.
Back-to-front things, like that someones eyes were in bits of sleep, and their mouth was in bad
breath. And to be able to write these final lines, for a short while, I had to stop standing on my head.
1 This story was chosen as a finalist in the 1st annual Axolotl Magazine Literary Contest in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, in August 2006. It was published in El Dominical, the Sunday edition of El
Comercio, on April 28th, 2013.
Translation of Back to Front Copyright Pedro Novoa. By arrangement with the author. Translation
copyright 2013 by Anna Heath. All rights reserved.
del Boom Latinoamericano in Spain in 2012. The critic Ricardo Gonzlez Vigil picked him as his
surprise read of 2012.