Chantel Acevedo

Chantel Acevedo has received many awards for her fiction, including the Latino International Book Award and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship. She is the editor of the Southern Humanities Review, and the author of several novels, including Love and Ghost Letters, A Falling Star, and The Distant Marvels, forthcoming from Europa Editions.

Fiction – Issue 17

Strange and Lovely

1. “What a shitty night,” Ricardo muttered to himself in the dark living room of their apartment. The thing with the English tourist had been nothing, he’d tried to explain to his wife. It wasn’t as if he planned…