Daniel Andrade Amaral

Daniel Andrade Amaral writes fiction, translation, critical theory, and music. He holds an MFA from Oklahoma State University and studies literature as a PhD student at UMass Amherst. He was born in Brazil, and his novella Mainland was a finalist in the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series.

I Want to Show the World its Poison

(1) Yesterday in our town forty seven pedestrians observed symptoms of seasonal depression sometime between sunup and inevitable sundown. Of them, twelve coped with a half-panic whose queasy threshold is hard to tell of, and let’s not forget the new hires, a couple mangled on a conveyor belt. It’s a small town mind you, and the poison being out of… Read more →