On February 3, 1868, la señorita Margarita Vogler, daughter of a foreign merchant who lived in Santiago de los Caballeros, ran away with Ismael Pérez Soriano, a mulato who fought with the rebel soldiers in the Dominican War of Restoration. The girl was sixteen, and her disapproving father—who had prevented Ismael from courting Margarita—flew into […]
Monica Louzon
MONICA LOUZON (she/her) is a writer, translator, and editor from Maryland. Her translations have previously appeared in Apex Magazine, Constelación Magazine, and Parsec Ink's anthology Triangulation: Energy. Monica's story "9 Dystopias" was a Best Microfiction 2023 winner, and her other stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Haven Speculative Magazine, Oh Reader Magazine, Paranoid Tree, Shoreline of Infinity, and others. She is Acquiring Editor for The Dread Machine. Follow Monica on Instagram or Twitter @molo_writes, or visit her at www.monicalouzon.com.

