In a time when death does not yet exist, a nimble figure dreams up a way of keeping the world from being overpopulated by challenging the endlessly reproducing people and animals one by one to a rope-jumping contest with very high stakes.

"First published in Mixe-Spanish as Ja Yäjk'o'kpë mëti'pë ijty nëkoo tyekypye'typyënë / La muerte pies ligeros by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, D.F., in 2006" "Libros tigrillo."