Carlos Contreras

Carlos Contreras (they/them) is non-binary, Guatemalan, and currently enrolled in Indiana University’s MFA program. This former Texan has work published in Chestnut Review, The Lumiere Review, Complete Sentence, and Passages North. When not writing, Carlos is trying new recipes, collecting trinkets, and almost certainly at the movies.

Suburban Slaughter: Twenty Years Later

Carlos Contreras

The first thing you might notice when watching Suburban Slaughter is the flashing red thunderbolt on the corner of the screen; the camcorder is almost out of battery, and the characters are almost out of time. It starts with blurred static until a moment of clarity reveals two boys crushed by compression. Their bright shirts […]