Manuel Calvillo de la Garza

writer // Tin House ‘22 scholar // PhD student at U of Denver // he/him // translator at @aleermascuentos and @BorchardLit

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@tiesto_eliot Ariel!! 🥹❤️🥰 I’m so excited for you, it’s gonna be a blast

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@RubenQuesada On the count of three, name your favorite dinosaur. Don’t even think about it, just name it. Ready? One, two, three. Velociraptor!

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Today I went to church and everybody sang happy birthday to baby Jesús, then clapped.

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@lusternotpolish @DenverQuarterly Yayyy! Congrats 🎈

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I love the Instagram notes thing because it's a reminder of how important words are for everyone.

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@diegocdlg ❤️❤️❤️

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❤️‍🔥

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Fortunate to have work in @longleafreview ❤️

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"…very good.
The sounds of love-making are eternal" @manucalvi

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I want something good to die for
To make it beautiful to live

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@JoyBaglio @aleermascuentos Yayy! That makes me smile so much 😊 I’m so grateful!

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Your loved ones were once strangers.

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First class of the year, Shakespeare, and I introduce myself with such. A. Bad. Joke. The kind where I laugh but you don't.

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My writing goals

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Last night at karaoke someone told me I look like Mexican Frank Zappa 💜🤘🏽🎸

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do you think anyone ever ate the queen’s ass before she died

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@irleywrites Holaaa

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I contain multitudes,
and they’re all so excited to see you.

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@tryphena_yeboah @NarrativeMag @unlenglish @PeteKasey ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥 Congrats Tryphena!