Bewildering Stories welcomes...

Hector Duarte, Jr.

Hector is an aspiring writer who lives in Miami and teaches 7th-grade Language Arts.

“Incommunicado” uses a bar scene as its setting. The main feature is the atmosphere: squalor and unintelligible music amount to use of the pathetic fallacy as a backdrop for the narrator’s disappointment in attempting to communicate with — if not pick up — a lady he meets in the establishment. The story is actually a vignette: a middle of a story that implies a beginning, if not an ending.

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Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Hector. We hope to hear from you again soon and often!