L. Vocem

L. Vocem’s work is forthcoming in River Styx, Bellingham Review and Saranac Review, other works have been published in Tint Journal, Acéntos, Westchester, Touchstone, Tulane, riverSedge, Litro, Carve, Azahares, Zoetrope and others. He's a 2025 PEN/America Bare Life Review Grant Winner for his literary work in progress, The Air Beneath Her Feet. He's a finalist in the 2023 Rash Award in fiction, Editor’s Choice Award 2020 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, First Finalist 2018 Ernest Hemingway Prize, and Shortlist London Magazine’s 2018 Short Story Prize. He lives in Johns Creek, Georgia. Read more at lvocem.com.

The Air Beneath Her Feet

They sat in an outdoor café having a latte and a ham cachito. Her boss talked about the weather, how the government wanted to subsidize payroll, which was their way to get inside the company and eventually take it over. He put a cigarette in his mouth and offered one to Alejandra. She declined. She didn’t smoke. And while she enjoyed watching the clouds above the Avila mountain, the spacious sidewalks covered in tables, and people playing an afternoon game of chess, she was still wondering why her boss asked her to lunch.
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