The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zaci

Title: The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zaci
Author: Benjamin Parzybok
Published: Strange Horizons, Feb 2015
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "The ticket taker is Eduardo, who has come to this Mayan town seeking inspiration to write but instead is stuck in the ticket booth [how he got this job is unclear, but some of the locals find it odd]. Being an obsessive type, he’s taking to counting the ticket stubs of the tourists who go in to view the cenote and the ones who come out. The numbers don’t add up. He becomes convinced that some of the tourists are disappearing into the cenote, but no one else seems to think there is a problem. “They are long gone, Angelita said. They’ve traveled far from here already. Don’t worry about them.” "Category:Best Short Story