Mario Acevedo’s “Villa’s Gold” in Midnight Oil

I asked fellow Midnight Oil anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Oil (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

And now, Mario Acevedo’s Villa’s Gold:

The Mayan bat-god Camazotz snacked on the dismembered remains of his human prey. Grasping a femur between the claws at the front of his enormous wings, he gnawed bloody flesh off the bone.

How the story came about:
I wrote this story because who doesn’t like a tale about Pancho Villa and his hoards of looted gold, still yet to be found? I got to combine that legend with Mayan mythology from before the Spanish conquest, and add a twist of horror.

About Mario Acevedo: Mario Acevedo is the author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats in the national bestselling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series, the YA humor thriller, University of Doom; and co-authored the Western novel, Luther, Wyoming. His work has won an International Latino Book Award, a Colorado Book Award, and has appeared in numerous anthologies to include Midnight Roost; Denver Noir; ¡El Porvenir, Ya!;and Shadow Atlas. Mario was a faculty member in the Regis University Mile-High MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshops and was the editor of Ramas y Raíces: the Best of CALMA, an anthology from the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors. You can find Mario on Facebook

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