H. G. Carrillo, “Andalucía”
The latest issue of Conjunctions (“The Death Issue: Writers Meditate in Fiction, Essays, and Poetry on the Inevitable”) features a short story entitled “Andalucía” by our own H. G. Carrillo.
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