Fiction | Latin American Literature Today

Fiction

Number 1

Happy Box

Nadia Villafuerte

Autumn. That and the dry leaves drifting aimlessly through the streets. On the corner there's a McDonald's that looks like an island, its yellow light shining in the distance, in the middle of the rai...
Number 1

Whadayalookinfor?

Nadia Villafuerte

The story was very simple and it played over and over again like a film loop:
Number 2

The Objects

Yuri Herrera

When you are a pestilent being the world stops being pestilent. Or does it?
Number 1

Cosmo Girl

Nadia Villafuerte

Only an idiot could believe that all Latinas could have the good luck of a J-Lo.
Number 1

Turn Around?

Nadia Villafuerte

She has the face of someone who has just sworn off marriage: part wilted, part revived, neither of the factions ever too transparent.
Number 2

Dead Horse

Raúl Flores Iriarte

I went to live in a dead horse.
Number 2

Nazi

Raúl Flores Iriarte

There's a dead Nazi under my table.
Number 2

Bienvenido, Señor Kerry

Emerio Medina

And I thought about telling her more and to reveal other secrets and other materials, other ways of doing things and other ways of life.
Number 2

Fugue

Gisela Kozak

Lamento della Ninfa is the first record I put on, barefoot in your strange and beautiful house, half empty, still unfinished and lacking a garden, on a mountain in a wide valley, so wide that t...