Rios de la Luz 143 pages Broken River Books (2017)

Read this if you like: Isabel Allende, V. Castro, Arundhati Roy

tl;dr summary: A pair of sisters in a magical family navigate the grief of losing their Abuelita, grow up

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Submitting work to journals and presses can be frustrating for a variety of reasons, but for those of us who write longer fiction, just finding places willing to consider stories can be a challenge. Many journals max out at around the 5,000 mark for prose, while many presses aren’t interested in stand-alone manuscripts smaller than around 40,000 words. That leaves a pretty big gap where stories fall into a kind of publishing limbo.