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Wooden Spoon
By: Amina Susi Ali Photo: Mariana Cotlear, Flickr. Today is the day Mom is coming home. I am in the kitchen, putting away groceries. I bought everything on the list she dictated to me over the phone:...
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Moving Margins from Humboldt Park to the Desert Floor
By: Yovani Flores Photo: Josh Koonce, Flickr Do you recognize my voice? The stories I told about knowing something, something written in the margins. Do you recall los relatos about carving lines as...
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Como El Lindo Clavel
Photo: Andy Collins, Flickr Each night his dreams transpired in silence. Mouthless men with fearful expressions chased him. They always chased him, as if pleading for help. He spent hours running from...
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Cause and Effect
By: Amina Susi Ali Photo: Food Thinkers, flickr Our hero, Junior, has many habits, as do we all. He is consistently late, starts every conversation with the word, “listen,” and refers to everyone as...
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I was remembering Louisa
Photo: Inti, flickr By: Josephina Ferrer I was remembering Louisa. I considered Louisa my other “grandma”. She is not my family by blood, but she is family. People would ask me all the time about how...
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The Old Man and the Ring
Photo: andrewneher, flickr.com By: Charlie Vázquez A spontaneous trip to Mayagüez to see family he hadn’t seen in almost thirty years had just begun, and Papo reached for his seatbelt. He was pelted...
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Exodus. Why I’m Sticking it Out: “My Diasporriqueña Story”
Photo: vxla, flickr.com. Bus stop in Guayama, Puerto Rico. By: Norma Iris Lafé I’d been digesting island population doomsday news since way before the NY Times pushed the panic button: news of the...
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An exemplary father
Photo: Ulises Jorge, flickr CHAPTER V of “The White Shoes” By: David Camacho Colón Right after getting married to Ciprián, Gala went through two consecutive pregnancies, both of them nutritionally...
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No Dancing in the Aisles: A Boricua Christmas en New York
By: Aurora Flores The Flores children. Photo: Aurora Flores I was to meet my grandparents for the first time that terribly cold winter of 1958. They came from the mountains of Lajas, Puerto Rico. At...
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Exodus. Why I’m Sticking it Out: “Return to Barrio Mosquito, Guayama, the...
Segundo Episodio Read the Primer Episodio, here. By: Norma Iris Lafé Two words describe the Barrio communities where we settled, in comparison to the suburban El Cerrito California we left...
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No shoes, no freedom
CHAPTER XXV of “The White Shoes” No shoes, no freedom Margarita’s diary: December 17, 1953 Josh Wedin, flickr By: David Camacho Colón When it was time to eat, the guard knocked on the door two times...
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Exodus. Why I’m Sticking it Out: “Unmasking the Colony (I think)”
Tercero Episodio Read the Segundo Episodio, here. By: Norma Iris Lafé Punto Pozuelo Zona Turística, Guayama Primo Miñi is the coolest cat in el barrio, to know him is to love him, he lives to make...
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All Night Laundromat
silatix, Flickr By: Amina Susi Ali I see these people all night long. They come in, they leave out. Next week, they come back. They come in with dirty clothes, leave with clean clothes. Back and forth,...
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