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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Dama en Mascarada

(The Lady In the Mask)

Saundra came in a few weeks ago talking about a wacky obit she ran across. Turned into a damn fine story: Magdalena and Andres married and had six children together; she worked in the circus and he dodged the clutches of his lions. But Ramos couldn't resist the fawning attention of his female followers.

Magdalena left him. But her rope-and-mouth routine couldn't pay the bills. She had six children to feed. So she turned to the next best thing: boxing. After knocking the daylights out of a woman one night, she got an offer from a promoter.

"You'd make a great wrestler," he told her.

Wrestling paid better. And Magdalena was good at it.

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