Stories (1920-2000) that depict the human and village landscape that, to a large extent, still lives and throbs in the southwestern area of the State of Mexico, on the borders of the municipality of Valle de Bravo near the State of Michoacán. They record the customs and idiomatic turns of the Mazahua, criollo, and mestizo peoples, which have been lost or are about to disappear as a result of modern communications. They capture styles and ways of life that are sometimes completely foreign and unknown, to the detriment of the national seed, understood as a social concept (bonds and common goals) rather than in its legal sense.

Agustín Monsreal states: "...in this book of stories you will clearly see what the obsession of a good storyteller is, of the conscientious ones, of those who draw from the pouch of the soul the most integral things they have, the best God gave them, and put them into their stories with abundant generosity."

Examples of content: El Agravio (Mazahua syncretism who find the devil in the Christian cross); Con el Niño Atravesado (a black Christ crucified who leaves the church for fear the roof will fall); Tirso Patiño I (the town's defense against an attack by Zapatistas during the revolutionary period); Historias Nomás (how the town bully sets aside the most beautiful young woman in town, until an outsider arrives and claims her); Dos Tiradas (the change from the old Mazahua “aguacalero” to the modern “amapolero”); Con los Brazos Levantados (the practice of holding up bridges with alive children drowned in the cement, which leads to the lynching of an engineer); Tal Kual (the blind masseuse who sells oven-baked fruit and fixes love affairs —written phonetically because of her blindness and illiteracy); Los Seis Días de Trabajo del Señor (the upbringing of a fair hacienda owner from childhood by his father, the overseer, and his nanny); El Verbo Suelto (the erotic experience of a traveling salesman in a small town).

Spanish: Relatos que describen el paisaje humano y de pueblo que en buena medida aún vive y palpita en la zona suroeste del Estado de México, en los límites del municipio de Valle de Bravo a inmediaciones del Estado de Michoacán. Recogen las costumbres y los giros idiomáticos de los mazahuas, criollos y los mestizos, que se han perdido o están por extinguirse, como resultado de las comunicaciones modernas. Plasma estilos y formas de vida que en ocasiones es totalmente ajeno y desconocido, en detrimento del germen nacional, como concepto social (lazos y metas comunes), mas que en su acepción legal.

Dice Agustín Monsreal: "... en este libro de cuentos van a ver clarito lo que es la manía de un contador de historias de los buenos, de los concienzudos, de los que se sacan de la faltriguera del alma lo más íntegro que tienen, lo mejor que Dios les dio y lo ponen en sus cuentos con abultada generosidad."