It hasn’t been included in my Substack project to publish or write new fiction for Homo Vitruvius. But one always says never to one’s regret, so I didn’t say that. This is what’s known in the digital publishing world as an “orphan” story. Originally published in The Ampersand Review in 2012, “La Revolución” remained online for several years past that journal’s sad demise, contained within the continuing web presence of the magazine’s archive. (There is now a different, Canadian journal by a similar name.) But now, the archive, too, has disappeared. The previously published story, absent even, if only, aging paper pages to sustain it, wanders forlorn the lonely unreal streets. An orphan.
No more!
La Revolución
I hadn’t been sleeping normally for months. It wasn’t that I didn’t sleep. I didn’t have insomnia. I could fall asleep, and I would do it on the sofa, reading in a chair, watching TV. In the past, Brenda would have made me get up then and go to bed,…
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