The visceral, feminist writing of Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) captured audiences immediately, breaking through the male-dominated literary world of early 20th century Buenos Aires.

Translators' note: Still regarded as one of Argentina’s most groundbreaking modernist poets, Storni’s essays and fiction have recently been anthologized in Spanish, where we discovered them. We’ve selected “Cuca”, published in 1926 in the newspaper La Nación, as an example of Storni’s masterful foray into speculative fiction to explore the eerie psychosis underlying society’s ideal of womanhood.