by Tanya Shirazi Galvez | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
Still You have the same face. It’s as if she never left, says Tío Jorge as he pulls me in for an embrace in front of the El Salvador International Airport. His verbose laugh echoes my mother’s in Los Angeles. This familiarity in a stranger helps me lean into his...
by Carolyn Schweitzer | Jul 21, 2023 | Essays, Essays 2023
More Than Just Words and Numbers The snails were in different places. I knelt on Mrs. V.’s living room couch watching the tetras school around blue-finned guppies and yellow mollies in the fish tank. I frowned—there were more snails today. I tried to look through the...
