Fiction
Spring 2013
Now We Will Be Happy
Tostones make no excuses. Platanos—plantains—burn in hot oil, their golden edges blackening before she remembers them. Smoke invades her nose and throat, a dark burning smell of food and melting […]
Fiction
Summer 2007
Girl of Wisdom
Fifteen and too shy to do anything on her own, Melanie waits for Chandra to come down. Waits at the large, wide window—the thin curtains Bernice has hung do not […]