Dan Moreau’s fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, Slice, and been reprinted in The Best Small Fictions (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2015). This story is part of a cycle of tales about an imaginary South American country, others from which have been published in descant and Twelve Stories.
Señor Don Armando’s throat was slit in his sleep under a full moon, the same fate that befell his other men. As daylight broke, his decapitated head speared on a stake greeted the dawn, a pointed warning to other outsiders. … Continue reading →