In November 2023, we walked around the empty streets of downtown Lockhart. Juania wrote a contract for Dee Lalo Garcia on the back of a tarot card from Typewriter Tarot. This contract was for his forthcoming debut essay collection, Bien
Carrie Moore’s debut collection, Make Your Way Home, concludes with an annotated bibliography. I’m talking full on MLA-format: Hanging indents, alphabetical organization. Every story gets at least three citations, and some as many as fourteen, along with a short explanation
Read Darlene Campos’ letter, “To: The Last Apartment My Abuelitos Lived In,” first published in the Caldwell Hays Examiner’s October 2025 Issue.
When I am no longer here, the world will keep rolling beneath my children’s feet.
Sylviana Rivera wiggled and wobbled to pick up the brick. In runway-ready stiletto heels and charcoal-lined eyelids dripping with sweat. Her honey-brown eyes reflected the smoke and flames of the cop car burning in front of her. A few feet away, a protestor graffitied in pink and sky blue hissing spray paint—“FUCK ICE”—over the side-doors of a white/green border patrol F150.
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