by Catalina Infante Beovic (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Columbia Journal, 2022 A commentary on abandonment and how forgiveness cannot be given to something you hardly know. This story is from Infante Beovic’s 2018 collection Todas somos una misma sombra (We Women Are All One Shadow). Finalist…
by John Better Armella (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Firmament, 2022 “Trista in Duplicate” is reminiscent of Borges with a touch of Poe and a nod to Kafka when Better references his contemporary retelling of Metamorphosis, “Kafka Knocks at the Door,” published in 2020 by Your Impossible…
by Natalia García Freire (tr. Michelle Mirabella) The Arkansas International, 2022 Using elements of the fantastic, the story creates this moment of hesitation between belief and disbelief providing a glimpse into a relationship—the one between the characters, but also the relationship between body and mind.
by John Better (tr. Michelle Mirabella) Latin American Literature Today, 2020 "Birds” embraces brevity, moving through a complete story arc in just 407 words. In this flash fiction piece, the form and content work together to display the ephemeral nature of existence. An exploration of…