@booklet {10610, title = {"The Touches"}, howpublished = {tor.com}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90.

}, month = {November 13, 2019}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where disease means that the world is divided between the clean and the dirty, and humans live in the clean never touching another human. The protagonist details the four times in her life that she has been touched.

}, keywords = {Dominican American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-143135623}, url = {https://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/}, author = {Brenda Peynado (b. 1985)} }