"The Touches"

Title"The Touches"
Year for Search2019
AuthorsPeynado, Brenda(b. 1985)
Secondary Titletor.com
PaginationEJournal
Date PublishedNovember 13, 2019
ISBN Number978-0-143135623
KeywordsDominican American author, Female author
Annotation

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.

Additional Publishers

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

URLhttps://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/
Illustration

Illus. Keith Negley

Holding Institutions

PU, Public

Author Note

The Dominican American female author (b. 1985) has a doctorate in fiction from the University of Cincinnati and teaches at the University of Houston

Full Text

2019 Peynado, Brenda (b. 1985). “The Touches.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 13, 2019). https://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/ Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90. PU, Public

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. The Dominican American female author has a doctorate in fiction from the University of Cincinnati and teaches at the University of Houston.