Lost Voyages
They said the yola was so small, you had to hold your breath and each other, whenever the waves came crashing. That the wind kept blowing the boat the opposite direction and the salt water, teased their thirst. ...
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IT’S BECAUSE I’M A LIBRA
Telling people I am a Libra, is really just a short and lazy way of telling people I am unable to make decisions. I always crumble under pressure, I see the good in everyone even if it’s not there and...
HOMENAJE A MI PANZA
No tengo memoria de cómo eras al principio, cuando ni siquiera me daba cuenta de que eras parte de mí. Tu cicatriz redondita era un eslabón de la cadena materna infinita. Tampoco recuerdo exactamente cuándo se inició la etapa de...
VOLVER A HABITAR EL CUERPO
Su mirada me atravesaba la piel. Los ojos de él, fijos en la pantalla de la televisión. Mi cuerpo de veinticinco años, ansioso del tacto y el deseo, opacado por la indiferencia. El amor...
SOBREVIVIENTE
Es difícil encontrar las palabras exactas para describir un tiempo tan desolador, deplorable y atípico como el que estamos pasando, pues ninguno de los adjetivos da la talla. Este periodo ha sido una enorme ola que ha traído consigo pesares,...
VENDAVAL
En la penumbra de la noche Mis inquietudes se aceleran Las palabras son un reproche Con el deseo de me que acogieran La incertidumbre nos recibe al alba Mientras el alma afligida Nuestra desdicha graba Queriendo recurrir a una huida...
PLEASURES OF THE FLESH
She had a weakness for vegan women. She loved gorditas and flautas, tostadas topped with pig’s feet and pickled pork skins, pozole and birria, but she fawned over women with grassy breath, nourished on lettuce...
My perspective of “On the Tip of My Mother’s Tongue”
A short story is a work of short, narrative prose that is usually centered around a single event, limited in scope as an introduction to such an event. In John Paul Infante’s On the Tip of My Mother’s Tongue, you...
How We Must Reinvent New York City Education After Coronavirus
It’s 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday in May. My youngest, now 13, needs help setting up for the Zoom meeting his math teacher and I wrangled over so they can address how his dyscalculia is making fractions difficult. My...
WILLIAMSBURG, BKLYN
You came here as a tourist And you fell in love with the flavor of frío frío de crema And the creatures you had only heard of but never seen There is history in all her corners She is composed...