Month: December 2021

• Andrea Mauk. “His Bones.”

  Shane checked the stick-on compass he bought at the auto parts store, then took a drink. “We are. You’re probably smelling the Palo Santo growing in the distance.” Shane had…

• Rainbowe Kilborn. “The Dragon Lady in The Borderlands/La Frontera.”

  My son has always kept to himself a lot ever since his father and I divorced. But right now, I really don’t have time to look back. I have to…

• Rainbowe Kilborn. “But…I Am Not White”

  As usual, I waited for the bell to ring so everyone could go to their class. It was then that I could roam the long, cold, and unfriendly hallway. Once…

• Jason Robinson. “Lion´s Den.”

  Remember the packs of flannels In parade through the halls The bravado The savannah of finding Ourselves You remember the neon The night´s fluorescent anger I see it all in…

• Sarah E. G. Francis. “Late October, 2019.”

  I put the phone on speaker and stomped on the brake at the first red light. “I should land tomorrow night. It’s the earliest I could do. I couldn’t find…

• “La Causa”

  Me miraste con esos ojos de leona y fue suficiente para estremecerlos cimientos de mis quimeras. Dejaste a tus siete hijospara dedicarte a LA CAUSA ¡Cómo no iba a seguirte!…

• “Oxido-Rust”

  Raccoons would soon venture into the blackness behind the floor-to-ceiling windowpanes; their eyes would flicker behind the tall rustling bamboo sentinels. Sometimes across the glass, they would play the staring…

• Glenn Marchand. “Borderline on The Acts of Love.”

                “Try to talk to me. Try to give me a piece of the puzze.”             “It’s hard.”             “I can imagine.”             “When I was younger, the…

• Louise Dolan. “Departures”

  If interactions with grandparents met the deep visceral needs of my insatiable childhood appetite for life, Mom, then the opposite can be said of my relationship with you, where most…

• MSMU-MFA in Creative Wrting Latinx Memoir – Fall 2021

  Louise Dolan. “Departures”             I walk the long aisle to the end of the plane to stretch my legs.  Back at my row, I gently tap my seatmate on the…