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This collection of memoir, scholarship, poetry and thought is intended to offer our diverse communities' realities to counteract widely spread violent or paternalistic narratives imposed on us from the outside. Our Creative Realidades includes writing by Maria Nieto, Kathleen Alcalá, Vanessa Caraveo, Carmen Baca, Ernest Hogan, Rosa Martha Villarreal, Juan Alvarado, Vanessa Caraveo, Norma Burgos-Vázquez, Violeta Orozco, Nisé Guzmán Nekheba, Matthew Olivas, Edel Romay, Álvaro Ramírez, David Vela and Robert René Galván.
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“...as they faced this cold, hard, reality”“Listen, I have to be honest, we are all perplexed,” the detective said while she removed her cap and began to wipe her head with a handkerchief. “It appears the dogs, uh from our K-9 unit, are certainly picking up her scent. But in all the places where she would have played previously. So that’s not proving too helpful,” she explained with a pause to catch her breath.
Read an excerpt of Oemor by Marc Towers. |
“I don’t know what to tell you, but you can’t keep trying to take the easy way out. He’ll grow up angry and hate you if you keep ignoring him. You have to be a mother to him from inside here because you may never come back out. I am telling you this so your son can know who his mother really is. He’ll find newspaper articles when he gets older, and, as you heard him say, people will tell him what happened. Is that what you want him to know about you?”
Read “Mother's Day” by Robert G. Retana. |
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