CHRONOTOURISM
By Luis Arbaiza. Lima, Perú, 2017, Hard science Fiction. Distressed Lima Violent Lima Unfair Lima Morbid Lima Lima with nothing Lima, sordid. Astalculo. Leusemia ILUSTRATION JORGE MIÑO I wasted a lot of money on that trip. I regret. I was encouraged because I had never done tourism: I had never left my town, let's say. I hesitated, but a friend convinced me. I did not know that I would have two of the saddest weeks of my life. The place I visited was beautiful in its own way. People were close, like cousins or neighbors. A "place" that I always wanted to know. I was amazed by the strange rather than beautiful buildings: colonial architecture stacked against another ultramodern, and both blurred by neglect. But nothing calmed the melancholy that little by little turned into despair. She came home. I had promised him something in exchange for spending the last night together and leaving me at the port. I imagined that the happiness of having her c...