Violet Castro is a Mexican American writer originally from Texas now residing in the UK with her family. The collection finishes with two longer tales: The Final Porn Star is a twist on the final girl trope and slasher, with a creature from Mexican folklore and Truck Stop is an erotic horror romance with two hearts: a video store and a truck stop. V.Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this personal journey beginning in south Texas: a bar where a devil dances the night away a street fight in a neighbourhood that may not have been a fight after all a vengeful chola at the beginning of the apocalypse mind swapping in the not so far future satan who falls and finds herself in a brothel in Amsterdam the keys to Mictlan given to a woman after she dies during a pandemic. From the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her \"a dynamic and innovative voice\") comes a short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions focused on the Chicana experience.
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