Maria Elena, fell asleep as I drove her home. she had drank a bit too much, it was one of the first times since the kidney transplant. she did not... read more →
One night watching tv, Roberto fell cigarette asleep on burning couch. He awake in pain, clothes in flames and stumbled out the front porch. Above the orange blaze he heard... read more →
Juanita was from a small town in southern California traveled a long distance to find an education in the Midwest on her way to become a family practitioner the only... read more →
It was only a three second glance from a former Mexican girlfriend who when her husband noticed she was focused on something else besides him she nonchalantly grabbed his hand... read more →
In Bob Dylan’s backyard there were twelve chapped faces huddled in an old church basement a poetry reading volunteer and her nervous boyfriend the host, a poet from California finishing... read more →
In the latest edition of the National Inquirer it was revealed that Elvis Presley, Yes…the legendary Elvis was a Chicano Fans were outraged critics cite his heritage as an important... read more →
My older brother Jesus said the smell of ripe onions always reminded him of summer We’d start working early in the six a.m. dark on the Horner farm in Southern... read more →
It started in 1949, when my oldest brother came home from school in Racine, Wisconsin after flunking kindergarten It said in his report card that he 'spoke no English' and... read more →
the only time a man held my private package I was resting back on the examination table at the Family Health Plan southside clinic they had already given me a... read more →
In the seventh grade in 1967, playing football on the school playground I heard that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, Some kids cried, other students didn’t know what... read more →