Lupe's Dream and Other Stories

During the strange and unsettling second year of COVID-19, Margaret Randall suddenly found herself writing short stories. The author of over 150 books of poetry, essays, biography, nonfiction, and translations, Lupe’s Dream and Other Stories is her first collection of fiction. These stories are as unsettling as the times. In one way or another, each references life in a near-future where scarcities have become dramatic, space strangely unfamiliar, and time moves in unexpected directions. After several intense months of writing, the stories stopped as mysteriously as they’d begun.

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, translator, photographer and social activist. She is the author of over 150 books. She received the 2019 Hayde´e Santamari´a Medal from Casa de las Americas in Havana, and the prestigious 2019 Poet of Two Hemispheres Prize, presented by Ecuador’s Poesi´a en Paralelo Cero. In 2017, she was awarded the Medal of Literary Merit by Literatura en el Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico. The University of New Mexico granted her an honorary doctorate in letters in 2019. She r ceived the 2020 George Garrett Award from AWP and the Paulo Freire Prize by Chapman University

Lupe’s Dream 1 El Lugar 12 Carmen’s Story 23 The Table 35 Ruth’s Time 43 The Photograph 55 Procreate 65 The Invitation 78 Wind 92 Sam’s Self 103 How Norman Stopped Being Anxious 114 Not What it Looks Like 124 Do You Want Music? 132 Little Margaret 142 How Things Have Always Been 150 Casa Alegre 164 Erasure 178 The Ring 193 Both Sides, No Middle 203 The Extinction 213 Water: The Mirage 223 Scheherazade’s New World 230 Another World 241 About the Author 253