Language and Thought

Just looking at the first line the setting is a place thats threatening to tip over into the unnatural. The uncanny atmosphere is eerily present like something terrible you cant look away from and in fact want to read more of. Heres how the description achieves this: The juxtaposition of a tourist-like welcome and the death imagery that follows Very physical descriptions of unearthed bones and a city thrumming Things are given agency that shouldnt have agency: the city dead children Intentions and desires are disconnected from people like bodies without a soul With carefully chosen language and imagery the blurb transports us to a Buenos Aires thats teeming with the dead. Its what ties the short stories together. We dont need to know about individual characters or plot lines because the setting is described so intentionally it makes us feel uncomfortable with our own curiosity for this dark place: what ungodly thing is happening in this city? And when you make your readers feel something you know your Amazon readers will hit Buy now.