Other Writing
The Best American Short Stories of 2025
Forthcoming Oct. 21, 2025. Originally published in The Georgia Review, 2024.
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“Late on a May night, with no more customers in the café, Juancho and Maritza sat in the marquesina, the carport which they used as a patio, soaking their feet in plastic basins filled with cool water. In the light, the leaves of the hibiscus shrubs behind the latticed wall made shadows that waved like little hands…”
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“It was ten days after Hurricane Irma, and the halls of the rundown school smelled like fungus and air freshener. Tree branches were scattered all over the grounds, sticking up like claws. Classes had ended early. Students stood in groups, waiting for their parents to pick them up, eating pastelitos and drinking Malta Indias…”
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Big Other, 2022
“Her name is Guanábana. One of her parents is a tropical fruit, a guava, say. The other is more like a pear, the kind that grows on trees in Brooklyn backyards and usually can’t be eaten unless cooked…”
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Literature and Arts of the Americas, 2017
“On the second day of the hurricane, after the Christmas party, my cousin Uben and his riends were so drunk that my aunt Graciela locked them up in the storage room next to the kitchen so they could sleep it off…”
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