Coral Fernández

by Silvina Ocampo

Fiction 6.2 (1980) HER NAME WAS Coral Fernández; she always wore her hair over her left ear, leaving the right one uncovered. She was so pretty that at first I thought she was foolish. We met at a country luncheon...

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Downward Drifting

by Patricia Schultheis

Fiction 54 (2008) WE CLEANED FOR our mothers. Off boats and kerchiefed, they stood at conveyor belts, boxing brassieres or culling cartridges, their hands growing cramped, their ankles swollen, until, shift over, they scarcely could climb onto buses and ride...

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The Tattooed Arms

by Raymond Strom

Fiction 20.2 (2007) ONE RAINY DAY my father picked my brother and me up from school, brought us home, and sat one of us on each of his knees at the kitchen table. We sat there quietly for a moment,...

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Florencia

by Luis Amate Perez

Fiction 20.2 (2007) SHE COULD HAVE been a boy. Her chest looked stripped of the fat and muscle that make breasts possible. Although this was the first time I'd seen her topless, I felt as though I'd seen her bones...

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From Autonauts of the Cosmoway

by Julio Cortázar

Fiction 20.1 (2006) The plan becomes concrete IN THE AUTUMN of 1978, the basic idea of the expedition had been established, with the following rules of the game: 1. Complete the journey from Paris to Marseilles without once leaving the...

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