“The Summer Job,” Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, May 2025:

For my send-off to college at the University of Chicago in 1981, my parents gave me an electric portable Smith Corona typewriter in a brown vinyl case.

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“Funeral for a Tree,” Punctuate. A Nonfiction Magazine (now Allium, A Journal of Poetry and Prose), October 2019:

Actually, two of them got the chop that day. They were joined at the hip, a ropy, ossified root hidden beneath the soil where no one could see just what they were up to until the chainsaw execution was well underway . . . 

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Publications in Spanish:

Biweekly column in Laberinto, the cultural section of the Mexican newspaper Milenio.

Empecé el blog Historias del cafetín del barrio (Third Place Cafe Stories) hace un año, partiendo de mi pasión por los cafés, que pueden calificarse como “terceros lugares” . . .

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“Homenaje a un árbol,” or “Funeral for a Tree,” El Golem, May 2022:

Nada prefiguró su muerte. Después de todo, las Jacarandas me habían acostumbrado a su eterna presencia.

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“Tierra Baldía en una taza de café,” or “The Waste Land Needs Coffee,” El Golem, August 2023 (available only in Spanish):

El poema ícono del Modernismo Tierra Baldía escrito por T.S. Eliot apareció hace algo más de 100 años . . . 

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