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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…

Tender Birria

[A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: As my lesbian marriage was disintegrating, I experimented with dating…

Esto no puede ser nomás que una canción (excerpt from Rhyme and Reason) by Criseida Santos-Guevara

Translated from the Spanish by Amira Plascencia-Vela There’s a song stuck in my head, and…

Poe Park

Bronx, NY (1847-Present) From this cottage,where he heardhis young cousinbride, Virginia (our Annabel Lee), fighther…

Pastelitos

They were starving. All he had in his fridge was a pack of la masa…

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