Sabrina Vourvoulias

Fiction and Excerpts [2]

The Ways of Walls and Words

Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:00am

Original Fiction

Fantasy, Historical || Anica and Bienvenida pass prayers and small comforts through the gaps in the prison walls. Incarcerated by the Inquisition for the faith she won’t surrender, Anica longs for solace for her family and freedom for herself. And Bienvenida, heir to her mother’s Nahua magic, now practiced out of sight of the Spanish religious authorities, will trade a great deal for the fragile chance at friendship and snippets of poetry.

Skin in the Game

Sabrina Vourvoulias

Wed Dec 3, 2014 10:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Carl Engle-Laird

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Three kinds of people live in Zombie City-La Boca Del Diablo: the zombies, los vivos, and the ghosts. Officer Jimena Villagrán, not truly at home with any of these groups, patrols the barrio for stalking monsters. Magic con men and discarded needles make this beat hazardous enough, but the latest rash of murders threatens to up the ante by outing the horrors of Jimena’s personal history. “Skin in the Game” contains scenes and situations pertaining to police brutality, which some readers may find upsetting.

Original Fiction

The Ways of Walls and Words

Sabrina Vourvoulias

Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:00am 9 comments 7 Favorites [+]

Anica and Bienvenida pass prayers and small comforts through the gaps in the prison walls. Incarcerated by the Inquisition for the faith she won’t surrender, Anica longs for solace for her family and freedom for herself. And Bienvenida, heir to her mother’s Nahua magic, now practiced out of sight of the Spanish religious authorities, will trade a great deal for the fragile chance at friendship and snippets of poetry.

This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by acquiring editor Carl Engle-Laird.

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Latino fiction

Putting the I in Speculative: Looking at U.S. Latino/a Writers and Stories

Sabrina Vourvoulias

Mon Feb 2, 2015 11:30am 10 comments 2 Favorites [+]

Art from Latino/a Rising anthology

Spanish designates the letter Y as “i-griega”—literally, the Greek i—to mark its difference from the letter I, which Spanish-speakers understand to be from the Latin even when we don’t say “i-latina” as we recite the alphabet. In choosing the title for this blog post, I reveled a bit—as only a bilingual language nerd can—in the hidden layer of significance I could give that not-so-simple I.

Until the end of July 2014, if you looked at the Wikipedia entry for “speculative fiction by writers of color” and scrolled down past the lists of African and African-American writers, Asian and Asian-American writers, etc., to the category for “Latino writers” you saw no list, just one line: “see Magical Realism.”

[Identity. Introduction. Inclusion.]