I spy on the boys and girls in the alleyway between six-story brick buildings, containers of shouts and cries, murmurs and secrets. I sidestep around the rats and piles of trash bags, hide behind refrigerator carcasses. I watch the boys trap the girls against piss-stained brick walls, underneath bony chests and lanky arms. Black-lined cat eyes eclipsed by close fade haircuts.
Image Credits: Edgar AlfonsecaGessy Alvarez is founder and editor of the web journal, Digging Through The Fat. She shares her love of art and culture as well as some of her offbeat observations on her podcast, Digging Through with Gessy Alvarez. She writes stories, poems, and essays about the middle of things.Her prose has appeared in Lunch Ticket, APT: Aforementioned Productions, Volume One Brooklyn, Entropy, Drunk Monkeys, Literary Orphans, and other publications.