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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.

Photograph courtesy of the author

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Fiction | Issue 155 padlock
Fiction | Issue 155 padlock

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.

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