J. Paul Ross

J. Paul Ross is a graduate of Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. His fiction has appeared in numerous online and in print magazines and journals including, 34 Orchard, The Antioch Review, The Bacopa Literary Review and Fiction International. Currently, he is working on a novel set along the Pan-American Highway. J. Paul recommends Amnesty International.

Anthem

The room smells of fear, sweat and urine, and as the indio goes on, I scowl at his ruddy face and try to forget the guerilla in the Petén jungle who ruined my leg so long ago. He too was dirty, conniving and disloyal, and he too stared at me with dark, inscrutable eyes.

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