Genre: Fiction

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 […]

Even 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 […]

This 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 […]