1 MOTHER CHASING ME THROUGH the apartment parking lot, pregnant. Her belly, round like a basketball, my sister in it. Me looking back and running, finger pointing at my mother, her stern eyes, wet with anger, the small me laughing out loud, Kassandra cursing me from the womb, years later I would put her in […]
My First Boyfriend, Leslie
I KNEW LESLIE AS A QUIET BOY who sat in the last row of my fourth grade class at Fammatre Elementary in San Jose, California. The following fall, on the first day of fifth grade, Leslie came to school wearing a pink-flowered sundress. Leslie’s slicked brown hair waved in boy fashion behind her ears, and […]