Readers and writers know that the way the story about a reality that people accept is shaped is crucial in both building a story and constructing a society. In fact, many writers feel attracted by non-realistic genres precisely because they can play with the boundaries of this story and try to create new ones. This is at the heart of Els fils del mar (Spècula, 2023), a novel in which Inés Macpherson explores the frontiers of the hetero-patriarchal story in a mythical setting. Indeed, myth is also one of the cornerstones of Una història és una pedra llançada al riu (Angle, 2023), where Mònica Batet draws from folklore and folk tales to tell a story in which each reader may recognise the characters and the city, even though none of them has a name. In Endins (Pagès, 2022), in turn, Marta R. Gustems chooses to intersperse poetry and stories in a highly readable novel which questions the myths and stories we tell around our privacy, especially within a couple. Finally, Eva Espinosa uses a clearly ironic tone in Miràbilis (Males Herbes, 2023), a feast for the senses with a meta-literary backdrop, a parodical and imaginative journey à la Wes Anderson on an island where far-fetched situations and caricatured characters are the order of the day.