The Water Rights They Tried To Sign Away
My grandfather dug the first channel of that creek by hand in the winter of 1912, and eighty years later a man in a pressed… Read more
The Baptism Gown She Threw Out
I am sixty-eight years old, and until the second week of April I believed there were some things in a family that could not be… Read more
The Food Truck They Said Would Fail
My brother laughed at me in my own kitchen, in the same room where our mother taught us both to fold masa, and told me… Read more
The Barbershop They Tried To Condemn
For forty-five years I opened that door at six in the morning, before the sun cleared the water tower, and I turned the key in… Read more
The Dog They Gave Away While I Was Gone
I came home from the hospital to an empty leash hanging on its nail by the back door, and no dog to clip it to…. Read more
The Half Plate She Always Saved
My granddaughter Posy stopped eating exactly halfway through every meal I set in front of her, and for six days I told myself it was… Read more
