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 […]
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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 […]
Read MoreThat 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreMy 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 […]
Read MoreEven dragonflies rose over the welcome banner, flew above the brick barricade, and dropped without terror into Dreamland. Mia gripped her park pass in one hand and watched them reappear […]
Read MoreThis was the email from Frock Place that got her: “See You at Midnight, Clare.” This was the one that made her stop. Her own name in the subject line […]
Read MoreTwo Versions of the Sea A It’s such an easy thing, loving the sea. Even that word, loving, is inadequate. When I first started swim class, the teacher told […]
Read MoreIt was the beginning of fall, and the whole town was abuzz with talk of the baiga planned for Independence Day. The country was up to its ears in crisis, […]
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