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Stanley Delgado

Stanley Delgado’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, Puerto del Sol, Mud Season Review, and elsewhere. He is finishing his bachelor’s in Los Angeles and will be pursuing his MFA at NYU as a Writers in Public Schools Fellow. He is working on a collection of stories and a novel. He can be reached at stanleydelgado.com.

Jan/Feb 2021

Cactus Eater

By Stanley Delgado

2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up They told the old man to smile, so he did. The makeup girl said, Stay like that, and she looked at me to […]