Genre: Fiction

“Can you hear me?” she says, and i tell her that i can hear her. Her hair is gray and frizzed, one of her eyes is wide and big and […]

When I was a child, I would walk through our town at night. I called it sleepwalking, because I had not fully understood that the term was reserved for unconscious […]

You and Eddie Garcia pulled, from the storm tunnel in the cowfield that bordered your backyards, and from your own sere backyards, from amid wet, high weeds out in the […]

It’s too soon to see the doctor again, but here you sit in a suffocating press of pregnant-smelling women, each of them clothed in saccharine colors. It’s like waiting to […]

Kate took her vows over a violet-fuzzed computer screen, and then she took a plane to the Midwest, where she had never been before. It was like stumbling into a […]

On the day of the funeral mass for Papi León, I was elsewhere. Cousins and aunts and uncles, I learned later, had flown over the border and thousands of miles […]

That January, we three sisters went with our mother to spend her last weeks in Acapulco. Her worsening condition was a clear warning that it was time to take the […]

The first time he saw her she was singing karaoke at a queer dive bar. It was 2011, the early Obama years, a time of Hope. On a small stage […]

My white boyfriend and I are newly returned from holiday travels, tanned and aching at the joint-seams, stuck with over ten dollars in foreign currency. I was due to start […]