31 Days of Stories 2020, Day 3: “Musique Concrète” by Amparo Dávila; Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson, trans.
Amparo Dávila's uncanny story of psychological torment has echoes of Poe and Kafka.
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Amparo Dávila's uncanny story of psychological torment has echoes of Poe and Kafka.
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's story is a satire about the cascading violence that results from institutional racism.
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