Alefes Silva was born in 1981 in Colombia and lives in Bogota. This illustrator started his work experimentally and he was used to drawing on the margins of books and on small papers every day and everywhere. This experience led him to choose pencil illustration as his main technique.

Danielle had heard that the girl Nadine was prone to fainting spells. She didn’t understand until an incident occurred in her own class, while she was teaching a grammar lesson and trying to corral the attention of sixteen eighth graders with a game.

The resemblance was uncanny, really. The same bushy eyebrows. That wattle at the throat. Those teeth stained brown, lodged like pebbles in his gums. She was nine-ish on her wedding day, nine-ish years old when she saw him through the veil.