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Maceo Montoya

Maceo Montoya is an author and visual artist who has published books in a variety of genres, including four works of fiction: The Scoundrel and the Optimist, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, You Must Fight Them, and Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces. He is a professor of Chicana/o studies and English at UC Davis.

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a man sits on the rooftop of a sinking house in the middle of a vast blue lake, his body hunched in reflection. above, two eyes watch from the clouds.

Fiction: ‘Former Colleagues, Nothing More’

California-based educator Maceo Montoya pens a short story about a professor’s unplanned run-in with an accused former colleague.