“Between 2013 and 2014, I wrote a bunch of short stories just for the sake of it. The kind you don’t write under pressure to publish, but rather the ones that just come to you and you tuck away in a drawer,” he recalled in an interview conducted by the In Situ website of the School of Communication and Design.
“Last year (2015), I found out that La Casa de los Escritores was holding a short story contest. At the time, I was doing an internship, had two freelance jobs, and was taking classes at college.”
“So the idea of submitting a writing project seemed unrealistic to me. I thought about not submitting anything, but then I remembered those pieces from previous years that had never gone anywhere. I selected the ones I thought were presentable, copied them all into a Word document, and sent them off.”
When she gathered the texts, she noticed they had a common thread.
“And I couldn’t explain that line using any word I knew. To come up with a title, I searched for neologisms on Google.”
“And the one that emerged was ‘Adronitis,’ which means: ‘the disappointment that comes from having known people for too long.’ All the stories are about that—that aspect of a friend’s personality you didn’t know, that thing that surprised you about a family member or about yourself.”