Category: Issue 1
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Nuyoricans Go Home
By Richie Narvaez In Puerto Rico that summer, red from the sun and so bored his ankles itched, Fever saw the boys playing softball. He saw them from his aunt’s front porch, picked up the bat his uncle had given him and ran across the street. He was twelve, thin, and had a boxy head. Read more
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Barrio Nostalgia and Guadalupe Rosales’s Veteranas and Rucas: Instagram and the Curation of All Our Yesterdays and Tomorrows*
By William Anthony Nericcio The internet is so much about what to look at. For me, that’s weird. You see the bulk of the first part of my life was bound up with reading—which is all about looking at things, reading words, but has little to do with seeing, with reading pictures. It is true Read more
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My American Dream
By Claudia Meléndez Salinas For Yailynn Hace muchas lunas we dreamt of your strong labios jaguar, thick African nose del color de la miel and your first scream that was heard by the aspens of the Rockies and the skyscrapers of an industrial world so far, so far from the raucous volcano and the patient Read more
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Open Letter to El Fuerte
By Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria Dear estimado luchador El Fuerte, I’ve tried to beat Street Fighter IV on easy mode with you, and failed miserably. I mean, I’ve learned your moves. Even though you don’t throw any fireballs or projectiles and you are shorter than that Gremlin-looking Blanka, that you and I know is not from Brazil. Read more