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Pregnant With Death
At approximately 3 a.m. Sat., July 20, 1895, a terrifying explosion occurred two miles southeast of Mart, Texas, 20 miles east of Waco and...
Smells Like Corporate Spirit
Sometime in early October 1991, my best friend Jason and I sat perched on the padded vinyl bumper that bordered the edges of his...
Coining a Texas Heroine
The New York Times’ 2020 series of feature obituaries, “Overlooked,” was primarily devoted to women and “people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported” in...
Broken Dreams
Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother.
“I...
Kiddie Table
When I think too long on contemporary grown-ups, I do not like what I see.
Something about it reminds of the final scene in Citizen...
Jump for Jump
The cowboy is holding a helmet in his hands, rubbing a thumb across the thin metal bars meant to protect his face should things...
Bloodsport
Cruelty is our watchword now. On our phones, we watch in real time as Palestinians are slaughtered with our money and weapons, enduring Israel’s...
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Clumps of lightly strewn litter pockmarked the apartment grounds as Ivan and Lorenzo approached. The two 18-year-olds recently kicked out of a local charter...
Handmaid Tells
Those who know, know.
Those who don’t know, need to be told
I am infected. I am a carrier.
I am contagious.
I didn’t realize it myself, at...
Memory, Loss
It’s said that in terms of geological measurement, the existence of humanity is just a blink in the eye of time, that, roughly speaking,...
