MARIA DEIRA » short stories http://www.mariadeira.com When he kissed her cheek, the skin was dry and he imagined a desert made of human flesh and human dust. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:59:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Notes On Cork Tree Babies” available online http://www.mariadeira.com/2011/04/notes-on-cork-tree-babies-available-online/ http://www.mariadeira.com/2011/04/notes-on-cork-tree-babies-available-online/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:22:15 +0000 mdeira http://www.mariadeira.com/?p=516 Continue reading →
]]> You can now read, for free, my flash fiction piece “Notes On Cork Tree Babies.” Click on the excerpt below to read the rest at A cappella Zoo.

In my father’s village, certain babies come from the old cork tree between Señora Alicia’s house and the church. At any given time, only five people should know how to extract the newborns from the thick bark of the tree.

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]]> My flash fiction piece “Notes on Cork Tree Babies” has been published in the Spring Issue (#6) of A cappella Zoo.

Issue 6 is now available for order. Only $4 buys you this beautiful literary journal full of prose and poetry:

Cover art by Mark Morgan

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