People Watching: Volume I: Short Stories

by Mario Cáceres

29 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2026

About the author

Mario Cáceres was born in Tegucigalpa and grew up in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he spent his childhood counting cars from his front porch (cataloging them by color and type in a notebook), inventing stories about passing strangers, and organizing elaborate Olympic tournaments between bottle caps he collected, complete with brackets and meticulous record-keeping. At sixteen, he won a national short story contest with a tale written entirely without punctuation marks. Then he stopped writing for over thirty years.

In between, life kept moving. He lived in Texas, Denmark, Japan, and multiple cities across Canada. He bounced between computer science, law, and marketing before finding his footing in market research. He taught, started a small research consultancy in Honduras, and eventually built a career as a market research executive in Canada. Through all of it, the watching never stopped.

People Watching, Volume I is his debut collection. Some of these stories have lived in his head since the 1990s. One traveled from a memory in Copán Ruinas to a host family's apartment in Denmark before finally finding its ending in an airport lounge. Volume II is on the way.

Reviews

[Rabecca Rodgers · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories were okay. The second one was one long run on sentence. Not a single (.) Was used. It's an okay read if you want to kill 15 minutes.

[Mary Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Different Stories!

Different short stories about people. Mainly people watching people and how people behave. It didn’t quite catch on with me. Sorry.