"Mami tells me when I look at her, she’s looking into the eyes of a dead man."

Sunday's Meat Market

"..the end of summer mere days away. Maverick only needed to survive for three more days. It was funny, he thought between the burning in his thighs, the water dripping down an already bruising neck, he’d never thought he was just trying to survive."

Migration

"It only took Lucia’s mother seven hundred and fifty seconds to leave her."

Pretty Girl

"Spencer was an arsonist. It started first with the pleasure of a match against its striker."

Letters from Home

"It is five AM when the rooster screams, and I with it."

The Rooster

"She was looking at me, no, staring into me, like she had never seen me before and was determined to undo all my layers, all the walls that took time to build up."

Prison Cells and Hospital Beds

After Christina Rossetti's Goblin Markets.

Mason Martinez

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