Gwyn Ellen Rubio | The Sun Magazine

Gwyn Ellen Rubio

Gwyn Ellen Rubio lives in Berea, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, New Southern Literary Messenger, and Wind.

— From May 1993
Fiction

Family Genes

Chloe looked at Big Daddy, huddled and quivering in her grandmother’s lap. Big Daddy, once a plump, nervous, annoying Chihuahua, was now a frail, nervous, annoying Chihuahua. Every so often he would snort and wheeze and gag, like an aging coal miner.

May 1993
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