Our 17th travel highlight entry this year is from Matthew Dexter, who has been a regular supporter and contributor since we started these competitions in 2015.
Matthew's entries are always thought-provoking and his latest highlight is no different.
Matthew's entries are always thought-provoking and his latest highlight is no different.
The Mexican Conductor
Meth made the miniature train more endurable as it careened through the mall. Children chased the caboose. Eyes full of diamonds and watermelons and blood, pointing with cotton candy dusted fingertips as the majesty blasts its convivial horn. I think of muchachos and muchachas who ride with their siblings or mothers or babysitters. How they bounce. How they should be lost in a cave with nothing but fire. How steel melts beneath the broken wings of fallen serpents.
Meth made the miniature train more endurable as it careened through the mall. Children chased the caboose. Eyes full of diamonds and watermelons and blood, pointing with cotton candy dusted fingertips as the majesty blasts its convivial horn. I think of muchachos and muchachas who ride with their siblings or mothers or babysitters. How they bounce. How they should be lost in a cave with nothing but fire. How steel melts beneath the broken wings of fallen serpents.
Matthew Dexter is an American author living in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He’s the Lil Wayne of literature. His fiction has been published in hundreds of literary journals. He writes abhorrent freelance pieces for exorbitant amounts of pesos to pay the bills while drinking cervezas in paradise with tourists. He is the author of the novel The Ritalin Orgy (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2017). His second novel, Hero Custodian, will be published in 2019. His debut memoir and story collection are forthcoming.
