2019 Summer – Inheritance

The One-Eyed Bat!

The guy I’m dating in Ann Arbor is The One-Eyed Bat! He wrestles with a…

Esto no puede ser nomás que una canción (excerpt from Rhyme and Reason)

Hay una canción que traigo en la mente y no puedo olvidar. A veces el…

Abura by Ángela Hernández Nuñez

Translation from the Spanish by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Hermógenes greeted us and asked if he could…

Abura

Saludó y dijo que estaba sediento. ¿Podíamos hacerle el favor de darle agua? Me apresuré…

Nightgown

One day, during this long ago summer when I was twelve, I went looking for…

Architecture of a Staircase

11am on a Wednesday I started the day considering the figure but soon became preoccupied…

Roadside Stop

Regina looked down at her husband, Ray, lying half-in, half-out of their car, his face…

Hector Garza
Tender Age

Luz always cried. Paz never did but could make others cry just by looking at…

Reading the Palimpsest

You are a mouse. You have a comfortable home. A dense layer of wood chips…

Go Home (Excerpt, Neruda on the Park)

Months before, Eusebia sat next to an older Dominican woman who talked to the roof…