Elvira As a child, Aunt Elvira was afraid of the dark. Her sisters thought it was because you can't see anything in the dark, but the reason for her fear was exactly the contrary: In the dark she saw everything. From the dark came spiders and huge vampires, from the dark came her mother wearing a slip and hanged on a crucifix, her father on all fours contemplating a green comet while her grandfather and uncles passed above him at full speed, opening their purple mouths to howl without anyone's hearing them. In the dark was a girl tied to the stair railing with a satin ribbon that made her bleed. Aunt Elvira said nothing, but moved her lips as if to say: "There are lions and birds floating dead in their fishbowls." "Don't make things up, Elvira," her sisters told her. "In the darkness there is nothing more than what there is when there is light." Nevertheless, even when there was light, Elvira did not see the same things as her sisters. She wa...