The Mourning of the Russian

Flash Fiction by Agustín Cadena, translated by Patricia Dubrava

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He wasn’t Russian, of course, but that’s what they called him because he had nearly white blond hair and looked like Ivan Drago, the Russian giant who fought Rocky in the movie. A dozen years of lifting weights had given him an impressive physique.

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