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This collection brings together a series of narratives that explore the quiet, complicated, and often contradictory nature of human emotion. Ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 words, each piece captures a decisive moment—a turning point where love, loss, ambition, innocence, or self-realization reshapes a life.

Created back in 2015, in A Millionaire’s Letter Before His Death, a father’s final words transcend wealth, offering a meditation on what truly endures when everything else fades. Genesis: The Amber Woman follows the fragile intersection of innocence and exploitation, revealing how circumstance can alter the course of a young life in irreversible ways. In Fall In (Love) Words, language itself becomes a force of seduction, blurring the boundaries between commitment and desire. Machiavellian Romanticism confronts the volatile coexistence of love and hatred, drawing from lived experience to expose how deeply intertwined these emotions can become. Finally, Watercolor Eyes shifts from narrative to reflection, inviting readers to reconsider how art is perceived, felt, and understood.

Though varied in subject and style, these works are united by their focus on intensity over duration. They do not attempt to chronicle entire lifetimes, but instead illuminate defining fragments—moments where meaning crystallizes. This is what makes them short stories.

A short story is not simply defined by its length, but by its precision. Within a limited space, it distills character, conflict, and theme into a concentrated form. Every sentence carries weight; every scene serves a purpose. Unlike longer works, these stories do not wander—they arrive, reveal, and resonate.
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In this collection, brevity becomes strength. Each story offers a glimpse into a larger world, trusting the reader to feel what lies beyond the page. Together, they form a mosaic of human experience—brief, but enduring.

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Short Stories 

A  Millionaire's Letter Before His Death

A Millionaire’s Letter Before His Death is a letter written by a Cancer patient to his daughter. In the first and last letter that he writes to his only daughter, he describes how he found the meaning of a perfect life. And knowing that his daughter is the sole heiress of his fortune, he writes to her in a letter his finding that is more valuable that anything in this life, including his fortune.
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Genesis: The Amber Woman 

A story about an illiterate teenager who, through her new job in a laundry, gets the attention of a whiskey dealer. This man uses the innocence of Genesis to get the support of a high-ranking military man who would let him pass the whiskey traffic. The illiterate young woman lives a drastic change in her life.
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Fall In (Love) Words 

In this story, Elena, a librarian that is seven days away from her wedding feels something like love for a man that just met days before her weeding. It is not through his actions, but his words, as he is journalist, that she notices a feeling for him. A feeling that is perhaps as strong as the love for his fiancée.
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Machiavellian Romanticism 

And it is love and hatred that confuses our senses and rationality. We live for love, just as we suffer for love. And the acts that lead us to achieve the sublime love is: a Machiavellian Romanticism. And so, that is, how we hate with intensity the true love.

MACHIAVELLIAN ROMANTICISM is a strong short-story about the construal of love and hate. The author starts by narrating an anecdote about visiting his high school crush that it turned messy as he got in a fight with a stranger on his way back. Same stranger became a rival in this story as he started dating the high school crush. A short—not eloquent story, creates a panorama of an anecdote truly lived by the author. Same anecdote delivers a construal message about love and hate. This version, has both author writings in English in Spanish as he explains in the preface the reason of having both versions in the same book.

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Watercolor Eyes
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Watercolor Eyes is an art book that deliberately explains how to appreciate artistic works. With exclusive art by artist Leonel Villagómez, the explanation about what art is, how it is defined, how it is valued, and how it is appreciated goes hand in hand with the description and exclusive details about his works. There are several forms of expression in art, in which a diatonic amplification is used for the personal appreciation of art. "Diatonic," because just as the sense of hearing is stimulated through the different tones in music, so the sense of sight can be stimulated through the different tones within a work of art


Artist: www.villagomezart.com
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​Social Science vs Philosophy 
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While I consider these two similar for a variety of reasons, they can differed greatly for the fact that one is a science. Meaning, that a set of pre-stablished rules applied on one while the second one is freely of expression and discerning. 

​I enjoy philosophy as well as social sciences. Yet, both differ greatly in the way they are conducted and presented. In the published work: “Artificial Intelligence & Digital Workload: An Ethical Analysis in Job Displacement and Unfair Compensation”I conduct a philosophical evaluation in the social ambit. Where I expose the social issue of employment displacement and unfair wages, and I propose, through the glass of philosophical and ethical ideas, how this issue should be approach. 
 
Althought, the work is incomplete, It offers a rich idea that can be expanded and better deliver. Because changes in the society are done collectively. Feel free to reach me if you wish to expand upon. 

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Artificial Intelligence & Digital Workload:

​An Ethical Analysis in Job Displacement and Unfair Compensation

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          Along the advancing stages of technology, Artificial Intelligence is the central spectrum for innovated perfection. Nothing comes from normative enthusiastic desire of global development means, but mere infatuation of the technological game in which personal desires derails from the aspiration of helping others. An inevitable advancement in technology cannot be ignored, yet it can be embrace through the rational understanding of the code of ethics in which automatization does not displace human labor. Having in consideration that the implied normative policies in present day, might not or will not apply in the same way in future generations. The advance of technology and Artificial Intelligence has deliberately promoted the adaptation of machinery by reducing human labor and competitive salaries. The ethical concerns are centered on Job Displacement and the fair compensation to the new digital adaptations. ​
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