Javier waves his half-finger, the truncated end wrinkled as a howler monkey’s brain.
"My brother did it with a machete."
Javier’s brother cries tears of blood every fortnight when the monkeys are silent in the ficus trees. Last year, the men married sisters, but Javier’s wife is more beautiful.
Luanne Castle has published two full-length collections and two chapbooks of poetry and is now obsessed with writing micro fiction.
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