Joel Blackledge

Joel Blackledge is writer, researcher, and filmmaker. His fiction has been published by Unbound, Floodgate Press, and the Oslo Triennale. His writing on cinema has appeared in Little White Lies, Novara Media, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Vittles.

The Prince of El Pardo

  He rode into Madrid on a white horse, flanked by a military guard that ran the length of Calle de Toledo. Every Spaniard, whichever side they were on, had heard the promise spread by those dour women in their dull dresses