Crises, wars, disasters – our world today is constantly in emergency mode. How do three of the most outstanding female storytellers of our time view life in our globally interconnected yet increasingly fragmented metropolises? Can we read their works as seismographs of social change, as spaces for healing fragile identities? In her essays (most recently *Visceral*, 2024), short stories (most recently *Sacrificios humanos* (Human Sacrifices), 2021) and reportage, she addresses in a direct, unfiltered manner people who have experienced violence, including abuse and rape, body shaming and the sexual awakening of young people. In her fourth and, to date, final novel, *Quemar el cielo* (2019), the Argentine writer and translator Mariana Dimópulos tells the story of a woman and her connection to the guerrilla movement and Argentina’s last military dictatorship. With bittersweet irony, the Chilean writer Paulina Flores portrays, in her novel *La próxima vez que te veo, te mato* (*The Next Time I See You, I’ll Kill You*, 2025), a group of young people and their polyamorous relationships in today’s Barcelona, a city shaped by migration.