Dainerys Machado Vento
Dainerys Machado Vento (1986) was born in Havana, Cuba, and is co-founder of the publisher Sualos/Swallows. She is the author of Las noventa Habanas. ‘The Color of Balloons’ is part of a new project, El álbum de las treintañeras.
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Fiction | Issue 155
The Color of Balloons
Dainerys Machado Vento
‘None of these people give a shit that a flock of birds is going to choke to death on those balloons, be they pink or blue.’
Fiction by Dainerys Machado Vento, translated by Will Vanderhyden.