“Have you seen the sun?”
“The sun?”
“The sun.”
“What?!”
“See, that’s the problem with you…”
“What?!”
“The sun, have you seen the sun?”
“You’re crazy…”
“We’re over.”
“What?!”
“The sun, have you seen the sun?”
“See, that’s the problem with you…”
“You’re crazy…”
“We’re over.
Eraldo Souza dos Santos is an Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous writer. They are currently an assistant professor within the Poetic Justice Cluster at the University of California, Irvine. Their current book project is a family memoir probing how their mother, then a seven-year-old child, was sold into slavery during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the late 1960s. They have been selected for writing residencies at Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts to work on this project. One of the pieces stemming from it is featured in Best Small Fictions 2025.
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