Edited by Mario Crespo, who also provides an introduction and notes, Atropos brings together thirteen short stories and one play by Álvaro Pombo, who suggested the title of this collection of varied texts. While they have previously been published they are not well known: a factitious collection of rare elements from various sources. Pombo played a major role in revitalising the short story genre in Spain, with titles such as "Stories about the lack of substance", "Recycled Stories", and "Eight Stories of Sulphur". The thirteen stories collected here in "Atropos" feature many of the cornerstones of his literature: Pombo writes about loneliness, the weakness or non-existence of love, individual disappearance and the fragmentation of memories. The characters' lack of communication and the need, in some cases, to settle accounts with the past or to resolve unresolved internal conflicts, often appear in his stories.