My First Saturday on the Yard

 Gini calls me by my first name. She calls my husband Rob. 

The Threepenny Review 

The Case of the Missing Cat

The rain came early that fall. Siliva shut off the AC and opened the windows before going to be.

 Midnight Mousers -- Thalia Press 

Tu Sangre en Mi Cuerpo

 Months after Papa Kelvin’s deportation, I take his letters from the fireproof safe I’ve stored them in.

Bull 

Hands Off

 I take Yasmine to the Hands Off protest, not the big one in downtown LA but a smaller one in our neighborhood.

Brown Bag Online 

The Mother Tree

 On heat-burdened afternoons, Mama spread a woven blanket under the cottonwood suckling the breast of Lanker’s Hill, the spongy wood of its boughs drooping towards the creek.

The Good Life Review