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This story was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize. There’s been a crisis of eggs. Tia Mari’s eggs, to be exact. I call them the rainbow eggs due to their astonishing, colored patterns. She’s collected them all her life. Her nickname, Marihuevo, was inspired by her obsession. Tio Javi is trying […]
I contributed this poem to a blog, where I was asked to select one of my poems that I “consider feminist or woman-centric,” and I dithered for months because I could not come to a conclusion about two issues: 1) Which facet of my feminism should I display? and 2) Why should I privilege that […]
The Great Chicago Fire burnt about four square miles, you said and turned your head to the dead factories. A cow tipped over a lantern. I laughed and we stepped on the boat. They took pictures but they couldn’t photograph the heat. I am the bubble of destruction. They call me fairy but I am […]