Kevin A. González was born in Puerto Rico and holds MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin (in poetry) and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (in fiction). His first poetry collection, Cultural Studies, was a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist. González was awarded the 2011 Narrative Prize for best work published by a new writer. The prize was given for his stories “Cerromar,” which won First Place in the 2010 N30B Contest, and “Christmas Eve,” the First Place winner of the Winter 2011 Story Contest. González lives in Wisconsin.


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FIRST PLACE
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Cerromar

A Story

by Kevin A. González
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I’m in the back of Bondy’s Civic, getting high in the parking lot at Plaza, when my beeper starts to beep.

“I bet it’s Karla,” I tell Bondy.

“Me lo pico,” Bondy says.

Guille starts laughing, and I grab the beeper and look at the screen. “911,” it says, along with the number for the Last Trolley Inn.

“No,” I say. “It’s a different bitch.”

“Who?” Bondy says.

“Some bitch you don’t know.”

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