My body resonated with the rhythm of the train, pushing me into my thin, questionable mattress. Old sweat sealed my skin to the fabric. Continue Reading Blue
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A young woman marries beneath her family’s standing and awaits her husband’s ravishing on her wedding night.
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They started rebuilding the sewers the week I left Belfast. Now they were fully underway the smell overpowered everything. Continue Reading The Stink and The Shame
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One woman and her daughter look for safety from the frightening, ruthlessly violent outside world. Continue Reading The Color of Memory Boxes
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Breaking Borders: Featuring, Michel Laub, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lina Meruane, Claudia Salazer Jiménez, Fernanda Torres, Yoss, Guadalupe Nettel, Rafael Gumucio, and more....
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A writer must travel, it is usually said. A writer must leave his desk, discover other cultures and so on and so on. A writer must not be like Kant, ...
Separated by what unites us, united by what separates us.”
Slogan of the “Archipiélagos” radio program (Miami, 1990s)
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Rio de Janeiro bears the weight of this karma. It lost its title as capital of the colony, the Empire and the Republic and transformed from the Marvellous City into ...
I spent my days between the dead’s cheeks and arms
Here, at home, there are no cheeks nor arms left
Our parents migrated, and our hearts with them.
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The first border I ever crossed was that between Mexico and the United States; I don’t remember, but I was told about it.
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In its sensuous immediacy, the world, its fields, hills, mountains, streams, seas and many skies, heat and cold, wet and dry, its secret past unfolds. This world, this mind holds ...
Ivanka Trump, doe-eyed, swan-necked, impeccable of carriage and costume, moves with the poise of a young queen, has her own business empire, knows when not to talk, and can sell ...
At my mother’s funeral, after the fire, my father knelt to kiss her, making the sign of the cross, fumbling with the gesture, though he’d never been religious before.
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Beth’s dreams of late have taken on a dark, apocalyptic urgency. She finds herself in a place she describes as the isle of the dead, where she converses with demons, ...
‘Look,’ she points. ‘See how it moves in the breeze, how the gold threads dance in the sunshine. It shimmers like silk.’ He is interested and follows her gaze. They ...
Experience the guilt of making love under the crucifix. Experience the thrill. Continue Reading Taxed on Affection
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Instead, she reaches for the dial and turns it. Rain falls. Continue Reading Oasis
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Any time I found trouble as a teenager, which happened frequently, my mother warned me that I would wind up like her older sister, my Aunt Beverly.
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