Author

Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado's stories have been selected for the O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 and won prizes from the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, Writers at Work, and the Glimmer Train Fiction Open Contest. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Epoch, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, and others. She received her MFA from Florida State University and is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati.

The Last Liars

We broadcasted the radio and TV programs, our messages of welcome we thought would show humanity's kind depths, our documentaries of triumph, the math that was our most complicated, and pointed them towards the stars. But Lucha Libre leaked out and so did MTV. The stories we…