There used to be a village named for the future. It straddled la frontera like the saddles of the vaqueros who once lived there, whose bones are now particles of the Texas dust they farmed and irrigated a century ago....
Mi Porvenir
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A.J. Rodriguez
Born and mostly raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, A.J. resides in Eugene, Oregon, where he is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. He is the winner of Gival Press's 2019 Short Story Award and Fractured Lit's Anthology Prize. His work has also placed as a finalist in Epiphany Magazine’s 2016 Spring Fiction Contest, New Ohio Review's 2021 Fiction Contest, and CRAFT's 2021 Short Fiction Prize.