Tara Isabel Zambrano

Tara Isabel Zambrano is a writer of color and the author of Death, Desire and Other Destinations, a full-length flash collection by Okay Donkey Press. Her work has won the first prize in The Southampton Review Short Short Fiction Prize 2019, a second prize in Bath Flash Award 2020, been a finalist in Bat City Review 2018 Short Prose Contest and Mid-American Review 2018 Fineline Competition. Her flash fiction has been published in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and The Best Micro Fiction 2019 and 2020 anthologies. She lives in Texas and is the fiction editor for Waxwing.

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Tara Isabel Zambrano  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

Someone is talking in the corridor and my mother is hushing them to be quiet. I sit on the side of the bed and listen to the sound of digging. From the window, I see the head priest of our town squatting on the ground and Ma pouring the dug soil in his lap, the […]