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Jan/Feb 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 1 |

Cactus Eater

By Stanley Delgado

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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.

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