Anthony López-Get is associate professor of English Literature and Language at University of Costa Rica. Between 2018 and 2023, he lived in Lancaster, UK, while his wife did a PhD in English Literature. This break from work gave him the opportunity to explore more creative forms of writing beyond academic articles and books. He has been experimenting with poetry, short fiction, short plays and monologues, both in Spanish (his mother tongue) and English. In 2019, he was shortlisted for both the Pint Size Plays Competition and the The Lancaster One Minute Monologue Competition. In 2021,the online magazine The Wandering Bard published his short story “Manual Mode,” and in 2023, the electronic journal Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror published his short story “In this Hole.”