Month: May 2022

• Liana Perry. “La Sirena”

  Woosh- Ahhhh- Flick Flick Flick Woosh-Ahhh- Flick Flick Flick Woosh-Ahhh- Flick Flick Flick La Sirena ve una niña La Niña ve a la Sirena Pero las dos no tienen miedo…

• Claudia Duran. “The Back House.” Continuation

  “Alooooo,” spoke up Ms. Josephine, a sweet Creole seventy-nine-year-old called to Moira and Kamila from the patio of the back house followed by a knock at the screen door. She…

• Jacqlyn Cope. “Hey, Pachuca.” Continuation

  Ama depends on me to help take care of my younger sister, Marcelina, when she is at work since my papa hasn’t been around. Everything has been harder for us…

• Jamie Jimenez. “Love Sign.” Continuation

  Specifically, I was looking for her, my dear Mother Mary, but she wasn’t here either. I sat down in one of the middle pews and prayed to her myself. I…

• Jamie Jimenez. “Love Sign”- Novella Excerpt.

  It hadn’t dawned on me that the last place I would go search for Joey would be the last place I’d look: his local Christian Church, his hobby, his little…

• Claudia Duran. “Traje de Charro”

  “Stop staring at me” Tony insisted as he packed his gilded trumpet, a bit worn around the mouthpiece, from hours of practicing Las Mañanitas. “Te miras guapo” I managed to…

• Greg Moore. “Invitation” Young Adult Novella excerpt-continuation

   Gretchen was a toddler back then, and he single-parented her using extended hour day-care.  Precise and calculating, he used the time he bought with extended day-care to convert his garage…

• Angel Ruby Vasquez. “Corre, corre! 1980´s Inwood, NY”

  I try and dodge every move of a fixed shooter like in Space Invaders these shit aliens, I try and move but they keep coming like flies in a UFO…

• Andrea Mauk. “Canción de los seguidores /Song of the Constant Drum”

  I don’t want to dance to Perez Prado, to Celia Cruz who my mom adores, I want my feet to lead the way when the drum beckons me to the…

• Andrea Mauk. “Canción de los seguidores/ Song of the Constant Drum”

  Puerto Rican Bomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0vzkGKEWX4 I don’t want to dance to Michael Jackson, to Parliament or Funkadelic, I want to listen to my soul’s song when the drum beckons me to…