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Marcela Fuentes

Marcela Fuentes teaches writing at Texas A&M University. Her stories have been published in Indiana Review, the Rumpus, Ploughshares, and other journals. She is at work on a novel about conjunto music.

Sept/Oct 2021

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By Marcela Fuentes

Last year when I met Ernie, his band was three guys who needed a singer. The band was called Los Pinche Nacos, the Fucking Lowlifes. Ernie on guitar, Olmec on […]