A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock
Novelette 8,450 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The oldest members of the asamblea all agree that the idea for El Zopilote came out of the Plantation in Texas, back when it was still one more state in the old US. The Plantation is what they called the Sysco-Bush Memorial Carceral Center and it had slaves’ quarters and a master’s house and Black and brown inmates..."
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