Ramon Castillo

Ramon Castillo was destined to be a rock drummer but he traded in his drumsticks for a typewriter and is now hard at work writing short stories and novels. He attends Columbia College in Chicago where he is an MFA candidate in the Fiction Writing Department. When he's not busy reading or writing, Ramon enjoys vintage video games, lowbrow art, science fiction movies, and dismantling and reassembling antiquated technology.

Art Is Hard

It had been six months since Gus sold a painting. “Was it the politically charged themes that caused my sales to drop?” he pondered. “Of course not. It’s the people. They just don’t get it!” To feed himself he relied on his credit card. Unable to pay the rent for the last three months, he [...]