Volume 26, Issue 1
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Featuring work byPOETRY Amanda Auchter • Martha Carlson-Bradley • John Chávez • Kay Cosgrove • Jaydn DeWald • Christopher Kondrich • Tan Lin • Anthony Opal • John Pursley III • Gabriel Spera FICTION Jamey Bradbury • Lynn Gordon • Jacqueline Guidry • Devin Murphy • William Torrey • Julian Zabalbeascoa NONFICTION J.C. Hallman • Dan Moreau • Lia Purpura • D.E. Steward INTERVIEWS J.C. Hallman • Tan Lin • Lia Purpura ART Malcolm Glass
William Torrey
It was summer and the father and son were riding the Via to work. He was a janitor, and the boy, who was called Rodrigo, needed straightening out. A week prior, past two a.m., he had slipped away from the family’s apartment and gathered before Southside Junior High with two classmates —malos with welfare mothers and fathers on Bexar County lockdown. The boys had just finished the eighth grade and thought it slick to play a prank. One toted a dozen eggs; another a can of red spray-paint. They chucked the eggs at the windows and onto the roof, and passed the paint back and forth, tagging the school’s front doors with words like fuck and bitch and cunt. The police knocked early the next morning. Security cameras proved Rodrigo’s guilt, and he was expelled. After the school board phoned to deliver the news, the father locked his bedroom door and wept.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Amanda Auchter • Martha Carlson-Bradley • John Chávez • Kay Cosgrove • Jaydn DeWald • Christopher Kondrich • Tan Lin • Anthony Opal • John Pursley III • Gabriel Spera FICTION Jamey Bradbury • Lynn Gordon • Jacqueline Guidry • Devin Murphy • William Torrey • Julian Zabalbeascoa NONFICTION J.C. Hallman • Dan Moreau • Lia Purpura • D.E. Steward INTERVIEWS J.C. Hallman • Tan Lin • Lia Purpura ART Malcolm Glass
William Torrey
It was summer and the father and son were riding the Via to work. He was a janitor, and the boy, who was called Rodrigo, needed straightening out. A week prior, past two a.m., he had slipped away from the family’s apartment and gathered before Southside Junior High with two classmates —malos with welfare mothers and fathers on Bexar County lockdown. The boys had just finished the eighth grade and thought it slick to play a prank.
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