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Valentina Ríos Romero
Valentina Ríos Romero is a writer from Mexico City. They graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2023 and work in a café above a bookstore, where they like to make unusual book recommendations.
Fiction
still lives
The omen comes in the ruin of a robin’s egg on the sidewalk: fractured blue splattered with the pink makings of a flightless thing. A plum membrane of skin stretched over eyes like bruises. I make the mistake of looking back at this small disaster, and then the calamity of it fingers the threads of my morning.
September 2024
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