HeyJaredCholeric Serpent
Fiction, poetry, and essays from a Mexican immigrant, raised-in-America, perspective.
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Lady Melpomene (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedBefore the gag, a beautiful bird flew from her mouth singing strange fruit. The bird sings on. And a bald eagle picks at her entrails.
Rights (opens the original)
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I called my attorney, Elías, today. I told him all about how my husband’s business associate has gone from constantly calling the police on him to calling ICE. Yesterday morning, three of my husband’s employees were abducted by ICE and now he is terrified of going to work. We hope his clients understand and wait for all of this to blow over. I cannot sleep, anxiety crawling across my skin like ants, afraid of what would happen if ICE comes after me. What would be the fate of my daughters?Elías i
Hiatus (opens the original)
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The clinking of eating oatmeal out of a ceramic bowl wafted from the kitchen. The portable air conditioning machine in the apartment’s vestibule blew. It was six-thirty in the morning in the middle of the work week in the Vásquez household. Elías and Madeleine, empty-nesters, geared up for the day. Elías sat at his desk before his iMac and an imposing navy blue cork board decorated with photographs from different periods of his life, literary-themed postcards, and a calendar opened to July featu
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