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Luna

By Sandy Suarez– I have a soft heart for little runts. Poor things are so tiny and frail. Most of them don’t survive. Luna was the smallest kitten in her litter, but full of spunk and attitude. She belonged to a friend of a friend who had too many cats and was looking...

Embarrassing Tales Part V

By Kelly Day– Self-Educated Dental Linguist When you sit horizontally in that cool moving chair in the dentist office, with official people buzzing around you in white coats, you hear a lot of alien words. After a few appointments, you’d be amazed at how many of these neat,...

Embarrassing Tales Part IV

By Kelly Day– Droolers Anonymous We’ve all done it. Whether it was into a pillow or on our desks, we’ve all drooled, and it is never glamorous. Many people laugh at the myth that you drool more when you have braces. “I don’t drool,” they smirk. Guess what? You...

Embarrassing Tales Part III

By Kelly Day– The Evils of Floss Every person on Earth has heard it. Dentists say it to each patient every visit. “Floss more.” The concept of flossing sounds easy enough. You pull a 6-inch mint-coated string between your teeth to clean out whatever stubborn ick decided...

Embarrassing Tales Part II

By Kelly Day– Things get tight It took me a week before I could eat real food again, at a decent pace so it wouldn’t get cold between bites. Every morning I ate half a Pop-tart, then starved through 1st, 2nd, and 3rd period until lunch, which went from sandwiches, chips, plum,...

Embarrassing Tales of Braces-Faced Glory

By Kelly Day– Merry Christmas and an Unhappy New Mouth When I was little, I would see my older nieces sporting teenage torture devices, or braces as they shall from now on be called, and found them to be just the absolute coolest things I’d ever seen. At night when Mama...

Shades of identity

By Jan Peña-Davis – “My bad, girl, I thought you were black.” Fifteen-year-old Delisha Lopez recounts as she remembers how her new locker partner greeted her at the start of this school year. A sophomore student at Roberto Clemente Community Academy in gentrified Humboldt...

Mi patria

Amalia Gonzalez – It was early in the morning. I had just woken up. My cousin Jonathan was driving. He picked me up from the airport and we drove five hours to my parent’s hometown in Mexico. Mexico is the best part of my year. Every year in December, me and my family,...

Latino Monster Love Saga

By Jenny Patiño – Recently on “Lopez Tonight,” George Lopez asked fans waiting in line for the premier of “New Moon” to get him to like the movie. He joked that he couldn’t get behind the vampires and didn’t understand the pasty white skin. At one point he asked...

My mother’s expectations

By Annabel Garcia – Walking into the kitchen, I moved my hands across the chair leaning forward listening to my father talk about his day. I finally let myself fall into the chair as my mother called “Annabel ve a limpiarme la sala.” It felt like an order from a general...

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