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Malena Salazar Maciá (1988, Havana, Cuba). Fantasy and science fiction writer, she is the author of the novels La ira de los sobrevivientes (2021, Editorial Gente Nueva, Cuba), Aliento de Dragón (2021, Enlace Editorial, Colombia), and Los errantes (2022, Últimos Monstruos Editores, Rep. Dominicana), among others. Her texts have been collected in both national and foreign anthologies. English translations of her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Mithila Review, and Dark Matter Magazine. Her work has also been translated into Croatian, German, Italian, and Japanese.


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29 Apr 2024

The Lightning Road cuts far across the Cosmos, a streak of dazzling gold amidst the star-studded void.
daily you suppress it and ride the shame / like a surfer rides a monster wave,
somersaulting in continuous turns
two wolves lope / behind the Atlantic
The thing is; I don’t set out to write neurodivergent characters. I write people – fictional people who are drawn from the people around me, the way I experience the world, and my understanding of these experiences. Too bad if other people refuse to afford my experiences as being real or relatable.
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