Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands
Long Stories Cut Short follow a number of Latinx characters like an Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunkeros, infants who read before they talk, romancing abuelos, border crossers and smugglers, philosophically musing tweens.
Frederick Luis Aldama
Award-winning Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands is a dynamic bilingual prose-art collection that touches on the universals of romance, family, migration and expulsion, and everyday life in all its zany configurations. Each story provides a glimpse into lives at every stage—from newborns and children to teens, young adults, and the elderly—further submerges readers in psychological ups and downs. In a world filled with racism, police brutality, poverty, and tensions between haves and have-nots, these flashes of fictional insight bring gleaming clarity to life lived where all sorts of borders meet and shift. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today. These unflinching and often brutal fictions crisscross spiritual, emotional, and physical borders as they give voice to all those whom society chooses not to see.
Award-winning Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands is a dynamic bilingual prose-art collection that touches on the universals of romance, family, migration and expulsion, and everyday life in all its zany configurations. Each story provides a glimpse into lives at every stage—from newborns and children to teens, young adults, and the elderly—further submerges readers in psychological ups and downs. In a world filled with racism, police brutality, poverty, and tensions between haves and have-nots, these flashes of fictional insight bring gleaming clarity to life lived where all sorts of borders meet and shift. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today. These unflinching and often brutal fictions crisscross spiritual, emotional, and physical borders as they give voice to all those whom society chooses not to see.