First published by online literary journal, Herstry. Elise is standing in front of her dresser mirror, a tangerine in one hand, a wad of Kleenex tissue in the other. Her dark-eyed reflection stares back at me beneath a fringe of stylish...
It’s a Wednesday morning in mid-December. I sit eating breakfast alone at my kitchen table, listening to the news while glancing at the day’s headlines in the New York Times. Ten time zones away, Eastern Aleppo is falling to Russian-backed...
Nearly two decades ago I accompanied a friend to the remote village in Southern Mexico where she’d grown up. At 17, Graciela crossed illegally into the United States. This was her first trip home in ten years. Over lunch one day, Graciela’s...
Nine time zones away from where I sit tonight someone in Germany is awaking to celebrate the 27th Anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. This at the same time the American populous is coming to terms with a new president who has pledged...
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