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Cover art by Jaime Fernández at Tata&Friends W -A Reference Guide- W: 1. Double u / double you. The 23rd letter in the English Alphabet. Too much of a you. The you you are to yourself and the you you are to me. One you too many. 2. Double Yu: That's me. And me again. The one you love versus the one who loves you. 3. A beak facing down. Something naughty. A representation of the many ups and downs you need to go through to end up right where you started. W/: With. A confusing state. W/O: Without. An even more confusing state. Wait: Short for waste. Wannabe: A rabbit playing tennis using a broomstick as a racket. Waste: To wait by a dustbin. We: The only living being capable of walking in two opposite directions at the same time. Also aporia. Weed: The soft bed where apricots fall. What / where / when / who(m): Different interjections used to express surprise or a baffled ignorance. Will Power: Australian race car driver (b. 1981). Win-win: A situation where somebody else loses twice. Make sure it’s not you. Wings: An excuse for birds to look down on humans. Wishing well: A hole where wishes rot. A dangerous place to throw your coins into. The sort of thing you do when there’s nothing left to wish. Woman: Not a bird, definitely. Wonder child: See Wunderkind. Woo: To wait on your wishes while holding back the rabbit with the broomstick. Also to play blind tennis. Words: Those treacherous bitches. Work: A jealous lover. A zealous cover. Wunderkind: You as a child, when summers were brighter. And longer. Try and remember. Wunderlust: A wish not to be here. (Not to be confused with weed or woman.) Much obliged to Maru, everyone at Lovemonk & Bonatarda, Javier Jiménez, Jesús Montes, Juan Diego Gosálvez, Iván Domínguez and my patient family.