To: The Last Apartment My Abuelitos Lived In
Read Darlene Campos’ letter, “To: The Last Apartment My Abuelitos Lived In,” first published in the Caldwell Hays Examiner’s October 2025 Issue.
Read Darlene Campos’ letter, “To: The Last Apartment My Abuelitos Lived In,” first published in the Caldwell Hays Examiner’s October 2025 Issue.
People at the diner were looking around, wondering if the place ever perfected itself. Wondering if this is what it would be like at the end of their own lives. With the shelves soon to clear – there’s the assessment of how things used to be, the rushed importance of meaning.
Violence does indeed beget violence, but we are so good at erasing history, aren’t we? We are so good at pretending the truth isn’t staring at us behind glass or bars, so good at naming something violence when it is actually a direct response to pain.
Essay Teaser by Dee Lalo Garcia
