Categoría: a short story
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Nelle Harper Lee by Luisa Zambrotta
Harper Lee was born on 28 April 1926, and died on 19 February 2016She is best known for writing the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, published in 1960, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck The novel is both a coming-of-age…
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Decisions: Loving an AI Ms. or Mr.? —01 by j Re Crivello
“They call it the loneliness economy,” he added. “There’s the boom in feminism in China, increased media attention to domestic violence… and then there’s still strong gender discrimination in the workplace. I think all of this together leads women to try at least one boyfriend through AI.” (Expansión 16-02-26) We…
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Dust by Mehreen Ahmed
Oracles Dust was at the core, when the myriad stars settled a score. Jayapatri looked up at the firmament in search of a new moon, the waxing crescent wasn’t visible until the moon’s second phase, because the new moon was between the sun and the earth, with the side facing…
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fellow lover of dark by Bogdan Dragos
it was a very nondescript truck perfectly blended with the environment more building than machine it hadn’t moved in over eight years the tires had melted into the asphalt and random weeds started to grow around them into the thin layer or dirt and sand I must’ve passed by it…
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The Shrine for Revolutionaries by C J Anderson-Wu
In addition to the Cultural Chests project commissioned by the National Museum of History, Master Wang Dang-Bai’s studio was seeing growing business. These days, visitors came frequently, and Chen Jin-Jieh found himself assigned difficult tasks he could not refuse. Finally, Master Wang explained the latest challenge—they needed to reproduce the…
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A Historical Short Story! Janet Morrison (editor: Francisco Bravo Cabrera
“Plott Hound Called Buddy” – historical short story The tenth story in my new book, Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories, is about a dog and the woman who befriends him.I have loved dogs all my life, so I wanted to include a dog in at least…
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Congratulations on writing 500 posts on LatinosUSA!
February 2025/ february 2026 Just a quick note: if current traffic levels continue, LatinosUSA will go from 35,000 visits at the end of 2025 to 70,000 in 2026. And thank you to everyone! Readers and writers alike, for supporting this community. Juan Ré Crivello Editor & Founder
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Dreams of Old Job Number 3 by Gerald Yelle
That’s Rose. We call her the Riveter. Sometimes we call her the Captain. She knows more than the rest of us. She even knows more than the bosses. Sometimes she tells them what’s what, but they know she’s only trying to help, and she isn’t being disrespectful. Sometimes she acts…
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Bad Bunny: «¡Qué rico es ser latino!».
It was only a matter of time before Latino culture took a giant leap forward. At LatinosUSA, we surpassed 7,000 visits this past month, and we still have more projects planned to unify the two languages (Spanish and English) and express a way of experiencing life. —J. Ré Crivello —editor…
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The moon in my childhood | Mai Thảo
A short story in Vietnamese by Mai ThảoTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm[Published on Văn Nghệ BIỂN KHƠI][Tôi xin tặng bản dịch này cho anh Nguyễn Hưng Quốc , with whom I have found the courage to translate Mai Thảo. Thank you anh!] Alone, Chu heads for the road. Tonight again…
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You did not leave me my friend. by John Coyote
A Poem by Coyote Poetry Some scars cannot heal. We learn to live with them. You did not leave me my friend. Old man sat alone at the bowling alley.Whiskey and gin are his…
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Fuel by Bogdan Dragos
he comes home in the evening and doesn’t even greet his wife she seems used to it just like her husband’s used to finding nothing to eat anywhere in the house He’s tired and feels like the whole world had bullied him for the past twelve hours but complaining is…
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Forever Young by Luisa Zambrotta
May God bless and keep you always,May your wishes all come true,May you always do for othersAnd let others do for you.May you build a ladder to the starsAnd climb on every rung,May you stay forever young,Forever young, forever young,May you stay forever young. May you grow up to be…
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Psychological Warfare: Put Down Your Weapon and Relocate
Author: Salizan Takisvilainan Translator: C. J. Anderson-Wu Outside of the tribal community A broadcast is heard: Dear fellows, you are already surrounded by landslides, stop resisting in vain. Put down your weapons Put down the shovel you carry on shoulder Put down the hope in your mind Put down the…
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kid at the back of the class by Bogdan Dragos
he’s the one sitting in the back of the class wondering what it would be like to have the power to cause someone to instantly burst into flames it makes him happy for a while It’s a way to channel the inner rage meanwhile his grades are suffering and the…
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Seasonal Winds by C J Anderson-Wu
Seasonal winds shift with the changing temperatures of land and sea. Sometimes they arrive too cold to linger, sometimes they are driven away by scorching heat. Rarely do they stay. Their songs are stored in the clouds, waiting for the storm to pass. Yet the air they need to soar…
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