Sara

[City_X @CityX101]

A stranger offers a young girl a deck of 60 tarot-like cards with strange figures on them: The Gardener, The Rabid Dog, The Black Flame…

@AlbertoChimal @LaurenHMIIS2020 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX60

[City_X @CityX101]

63 minutes pass before anyone notices the presence of the stabbed man, who all but dragged himself to the emergency room door.

@AlbertoChimal @Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX63

[City_X @CityX101]

Something—an explosion, an earthquake, strong but minute—causes a single building in a multi-family housing complex to fall, killing 86 people

@AlbertoChimal @ritacorrea_ @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX86

[City_X @CityX101]

How old are you? someone asks the naked little boy as he emerges from the gutter. He answers: 65.

@AlbertoChimal @Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX65

[City_X @CityX101]

The patient’s already written the phrase WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN EVERYTHING IS OVER on the wall 66 times in his own blood. He starts over.

@AlbertoChimal
@Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX66

[City_X @CityX101]

All 67 of you, the preacher shouts to the crowd, are equally bad, because you don’t give everything to the Lord. He then takes out the collection basket.

@AlbertoChimal
@Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX67

[Middlebury Institute @MIIS]

Happening now: live-tweeting twitter novel translated by @MIIS students!

[City_X @CityX101]

The Facebook post of a teenager who’s planning to commit suicide gets 68 mocking comments.

@AlbertoChimal @Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX68

[City_X @CityX101]

77 kilos of meat, bought recently for a restaurant, are infested with yellow and green maggots.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX77

[City_X @CityX101]

76 leaves from trees in a park, after falling to the ground, form a sequence of symbols: a message. No one reads it.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX76

[City_X @CityX101]

75, says the host of the variety show. He stops dancing. The other host and the bikini models look at him perplexed.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX75

[City_X @CityX101]

74 imprisoned activists leave jail. All of the doors open on their own as they pass by. Everyone looks away.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX74

[City_X @CityX101]

A woman goes into a store and buys all 71 wedding dresses available in the display window.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX71

[City_X @CityX101]

The producer makes a mistake and Haydn’s Symphony No. 73 in D major is heard for 73 seconds on a tropical music station.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX73

[City_X @CityX101]

One after another, throughout the day, without identifying themselves, the voices of 72 dead people call into the classical music station.

@AlbertoChimal @eg88891034 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX72

[City_X @CityX101]

Doña Luz has died alone in her room. It will take days to find her. One by one, 70 grubs emerge from her mouth.

@AlbertoChimal @Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX70

[City_X @CityX101]

69 workers in the clandestine laboratory look at each other, terrified: their mouths are suddenly bleeding.

@AlbertoChimal @Sara18416645 @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX69

[City_X @CityX101]

Many thanks to @albertochimal for Zooming into my @MIIS translation class today to discuss his @Twitter novel City X, which these students are translating & we'll tweet on #Halloween. Be ready to be scared! #Horror #Twitterature #Mexico @LatAmLitToday @Middlebury @MIISalumni

[City_X @CityX101]

"39 cellphones still in their boxes in a store downtown receive the same text message." City X: a Novel in 101 Tweets, by @AlbertoChimal, translated by students at @MIIS, for @LatAmLitToday, live-tweeted on #Halloween. Be prepared to be scared. #Twitterature @Middlebury

[City_X @CityX101]

"99 bodies appear buried in a clandestine grave" is just 1 of the 101 tweets in @AlbertoChimal's Twitter Novel City X, translated by students at @MIIS for @LatAmerLitToday. @Middlebury @MiisAlumni #Horror #Halloween #Twitterature #SFinTranslation