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Fiction
Shoes Make the Man

Shoes Make the Man

For David Campbell and Joseph Lingad When Rick died of pancreatic cancer, his wife Gina gave me seven pairs of his shoes. It wasn’t as if I hankered after his…
Fiction
Maneras de desaparecer

Maneras de desaparecer

Neddy Merril, el personaje de Cheever que decide regresar nadando a su casa por el Río Lucinda, la hilera de piscinas de sus vecinos, agradece vivir en un mundo tan…
Fiction
HOW DID YOU BEGIN TO SING

HOW DID YOU BEGIN TO SING

Translated by Gustavo Escobedo My mother played the flute, and for a while she played in a local orchestra where we lived. She loved music. She took me to the…
Fiction
January Rain

January Rain

Translated from the Spanish by Janice Goveas “We’ll meet again.” The words went around and around in his head for days. He tried to shake them off. They felt as…
Fiction
Thursday

Thursday

1 Before I was awake I could already hear the annoying sound of a telephone ringing insistently. I was floating in an intermediate state between deep sleep and wakefulness and arose…
Fiction
La virgen cabeza (fragmento)

La virgen cabeza (fragmento)

En 2009, Eterna Cadencia publicó la primera novela de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, que habría de convertirse en la punta de lanza de una nueva vanguardia argentina donde suenan Mariana Enríquez,…
Fiction
Basura  (Fragmento)

Basura (Fragmento)

Me dice la Serena que quieres trabajar con nosotras, que ya tienes experiencia y toda la cosa, ¿es cierto? Deja te miro. Ay, chula, no sé, tienes pinta de que…
Fiction
Saudades

Saudades

English translation by Tanya Huntington Silver reflections on the rooftops of a city I shall never come to know, as a daughter born into a history of shipwrecks and saudades.…
Fiction
E.

E.

Fue el año en que todo el mundo quería irse del país, el Año de la Hambruna. Los que habíamos salido antes creíamos tener el privilegio de un nuevo comienzo.…
Fiction
La otra vocación

La otra vocación

¿En qué momento decides hacerlo, salir por esa puerta a oscuras, desgreñada, dispuesta a lanzarte a un viaje sin regreso? En las horas que lleva postrada en esa banca Amelia…
Fiction
LOSS

LOSS

I DON’T KNOW if I have the words I need to tell you everything I want to say. I don’t know if I have enough creative impulses to get it…