Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as a guardian spirit and inspiration to a middle-aged woman searching for a better life. On a beach in Mexico, a turtle is caught in the desperate cycle of poverty that haunts human existence. And in the title story, a young girl is transformed every day during recess into a wild stallion, whose fate, like that of the mustangs in the western United States, is determined by the actions of cowboys.

Contents:                 

Mr. Clunk! — The eternal theater — Galatea — Adelaide's body — A brief exercise in the absurd — Trilogy. Lillith ; Sammaël ; Sammaël and Lillith — Mozart day — In memoriam — Of cheese and Christ — Balzac — Earl — The Judas-tail — The turtle — Gift of the jaguar — Provocation — When I was a horse — Truth, lies and other inventions : an autobiography.