Junot Díaz’s story “Monstro” appears in this week’s special summer Science Fiction issue. He recently exchanged emails with Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about the story’s origins and it’s possible future as a novel. Read their conversation here: http://nyr.kr/JKJbnU
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Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora”
You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, a gesture. That’s what happened with your girlfriend Paloma—she stooped to pick up her purse, and your heart flew out of you.
That’s what happened with Miss Lora, too.
It was 1985. You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced—like totally, utterly convinced—that the world was going to blow itself to pieces. Almost every night you had dreams that made the ones the President was having in “Dreamscape” look like pussy play. In your dreams the bombs were always going off, evaporating you while you walked, while you ate a chicken wing, while you rode the bus to school, while you fucked Paloma. You would wake up biting your own tongue in terror, the blood dribbling down your chin.
Someone should have medicated you.
In this week’s issue: Junot Diaz’s “Miss Lora”: http://nyr.kr/HVyGJp
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