Biography - Jaramillo, Stephan (1970-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online
by Enrique Jaramillo Levi
Category: Fiction

This imaginative and fantastic collection of short stories repeatedly asks, "What if ... ?", leading readers to explore situations that depart from our normal expectations of daily life. In Duplications and Other Stories storefront mannequins come alive and make love at night. A witness to a street stabbing becomes the victim of the very crime he has just observed. A woman hopelessly neglected by her husband resolves her despair by an unexpected transformation. Enrique Jaramillo Levi is drawn to the strangeness of life, and delighted by the dark corners of the human imagination. His fiction challenges us to contemplate the fearful potential of human existence.