Certain Dark Things

In recent weeks, I’ve been working on a story about Mexico and a couple of stories about vampires. In my reading and my search for inspiration, it’s perhaps not surprising that I should spend some time with Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel Certain Dark Things.

The novel is set in a near-future Mexico City. A young man named Domingo makes a meager living collecting garbage from the streets and reselling the things that still have use and value as he can. One evening, in the subway, a vampire na...