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Polishing Imperfection

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Polishing Imperfection by Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo As published in  Tint Journal, Issue Spring 2024 , ISSN: 2791-4801 Let me tell you this: I bet you wouldn’t really notice your body was running low on nutrients before you started feeling sick. I learned that from Clara about a year ago. She was the sixth person at my aunt’s crochet club I had visited that Sunday afternoon, going from house to house trying to make a sale. The scene varied little from one house to the next: a living room decorated with dozens of small ceramic animals; a husband grunting at a TV set in the next room; a low wooden table with a white crochet tablecloth; a steel tray with two giant mugs of strong coffee. And, as in every house, a couple of small, engraved silvers poons on the side, covered in brown rust stains. I was desperate for Clara to take the bait that day... ( continue reading on Tint Journal's website )
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Mixtape

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Mix-tape by Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo First Place Writer’s Block Magazine Flash Fiction Competition 2021. As published in Writer's Block Issue 46 , Summer 2021   Michael sits cross-legged on the guest room’s wooden floor, facing a white ar­chive box marked with a big neon MTV sticker. He had briefly seen it twice before: once, in 2008, when Caril moved into his small studio in downtown Albany, and then years later when they scaled up to this townhouse just outside the city. He had asked what was in it and on both occasions she said they were old memories from “before his time”, with a sweet smile. He never saw the box again until he found it at the back of the closet today. It had been four sleepless nights, searching for a clue that would explain something, anything, of why she was simply gone. He opens the box and finds an old Walkman with a black cassette and some cheap headphones wrapped around it. He hasn’t seen one in decades. He unwinds the cable and turns the player a...
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Esperanzas Enfundadas (cuento)

Se sienta en la mesa del comedor y repasa una vez más la lista, para que no se olvide nada. Dos fotos en tamaño 5x5 con fondo blanco. Las toma entre sus dedos y se observa ridículo, de traje y corbata, tratando de mostrar con su expresión la seguridad y la idoneidad esperada, pero que ahora parece más la expresión de un convicto recién llegado a la estación de policía. ¿Las fotos deben pegarse a la hoja? ¿Graparse o anexarse con un gancho? Tal vez sea mejor si van sueltas dentro del sobre amarillento. Por si las dudas llevará un gancho y goma para decidir a la mañana siguiente. Ahora el formulario. Revisa punto por punto. Retiñe con su lapicero las palabras que cree han quedado poco legibles; eso se puede prestar para malas interpretaciones y eso es lo que menos quiere. Relee las preguntas y siente que algunas respuestas pueden estar mal. ¿Mal? Sí, como en los exámenes de la escuela en los que las preguntas estaban hechas especialmente para que cayeran los desprevenidos y no para med...
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