The Arrival
Alejandra arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and went through immigration. A uniformed man looked at her passport with suspicion and checked her backpack as if it contained some illicit drug. All the bigger than life spaces…
Bellingham Review Contributor
L. Vocem is a Venezuelan-American writer whose works have been recently published in Acentos, Touchstone Magazine, Tulane Review and riverSedge Journal. Other stories have appeared in Litro, Ghost Town, Wraparound South, Azahares, Zoetrope All-Story Extra and others. His work has been finalist in the 2023 Rash Award in Fiction, Editor’s Choice Award in the 2020 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, First Finalist in the 2018 Ernest Hemingway Prize and shortlisted for London Magazine’s 2018 Short Story Prize. He lives in Johns Creek, Georgia. Read more at lvocem.com.
Alejandra arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and went through immigration. A uniformed man looked at her passport with suspicion and checked her backpack as if it contained some illicit drug. All the bigger than life spaces…