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City X by @AlbertoChimal & translated by students at @MIIS.

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If you liked @albertochimal's "City X," check out "The Grand Experiment," his story about climate catastrophe and human greed in a not-so-distant future, translated by @MIIS professor of translation @unpoetaloco for @worldlittoday. https://t.co/5qpCXoUP9T

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City X by @albertochimal & translated by students at @MIIS has been nominated for favorite short story by #SFinTranslation. Read it here: https://t.co/B9JJrj6wpE and vote here: https://t.co/SzicnFZ4DD Don't forget to vote for @LatAmLitToday as best magazine. @MIIS @MIISalumni

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.@albertochimal, author of City X: A Novel in 101 Tweets is live on YouTube from the #FILGuadalajara2018 with his wife @raxxie_ https://t.co/PUloMnXOCq

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City X (and Ciudad X) are now up at @LatAmLitToday. Thanks again for following us here. @MIIS @Middlebury @MIISalumni @albertochimal https://t.co/B9JJriOV14

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Thank you for reading @AlbertoChimal's City X, originally tweeted on 10/10/14 & translated by students in the MA program at @MIIS under the direction of @unpoetaloco. Read the entire collection, in Spanish & in English, in the new issue of @LatAmLitToday, online 11/01/18. @MIIS

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“Is this the end?”

“There's never an end here,” responds the voice, which doesn't sound human, amid the flames. @AlbertoChimal @unpoetaloco @LatAmLitToday @MIIS @Middlebury #Horror #Halloween #CityX00

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In an instant all is saved or lost, the oldest says. Speak. Look & see if you can find the word to save us. Then he dies: someone in the crowd shoots or stabs him; he doesn’t know which: in fact, he doesn’t know anything anymore. @AlbertoChimal @MIIS @LatAmLitToday #CityX01

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The others look at her but don’t understand. We’re all lost, she adds, or we manage to hold on a bit longer, another bit tomorrow, forever.

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Speak now, one of them says: invoke the 3 powers, the countless spirits, I don’t know, speak, say something.

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People from the 4 corners of the city surround the seers, amid the flames and the cries.

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5 soldiers decide to flee in the helicopter in which they were supposed to pick up several VIPs, who hurl insults at them from the ground.

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6 trucks that were transporting gasoline fall from an overpass onto a crowd.

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7 of the seers meet at the opening of the tunnel. Their number is part of the omen: a number that the world clock strikes.

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8 vehicles crash into the same number of buildings: two bicycles, a motorcycle, three cars, a bus, a plane with passengers.

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The city’s 9 main avenues are full of abandoned cars. No one will escape from here either.

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Anchors from the 10 most-watched programs feel compelled to tell people to remain calm.

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11 dogs fight over one of the first dead bodies.

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In 12 neighborhoods in the city center, several new fires are started.

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13 neighborhoods in the east lose power all at the same time. Screams can be heard in the pitch-dark streets.

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