DESPACHADOR DE POLLO FRITO

Fried Chicken Dispenser, the fifth book of short stories by Carlos Velázquez, takes us through a series of protagonists and environments where lies and tricks; cross-dressing and dipsomania; delirium and illness; ruin and emotional disasters, through their unmistakable caustic, sonorous and fast prose, configure a biting universe that ends up being a ruthless mirror in which even the most skeptical reader will be seduced and enchanted. A Mexican private detective receives the unprecedented task of unmasking a false Paul McCartney, a cinephile and sensitive office worker receives a karmic setback to his long career as a heartthrob, a xenophobic orchestra conductor with his own people will drive the community to the brink of madness from Tatahuila due to his conflicts with authority, a transvestite will see his life ruined from a rectal ulcer that will lead him to the path of pseudo-evangelical redemption, and a fried chicken dispatcher drags a dispute with his boss onto a pendulum of revenge and rematches where the body itself will be used as the main battlefield. In these five stories, Velázquez manages to his own pleasure the evolution of these quasi-fantastic beings so dispossessed, with a masterful handling of the structure and the form that reveres the great masters of the genre. Never leaving a sense of humor as the point of the spear, he leads the plots from a charming and enveloping premise, where everyone will burst out laughing.