"After a while the other students in class began to notice I had become Ms. Burnett's favorite, but no one resented me…"

"Their beloved priest must now wander for all eternity chained to this earthly purgatory—a warning to all that God for…"

"My four years of high school were spent locked up inside “el campo.” I became a voracious reader and television-watch…"

"I sought out clandestine affairs of my own, which wasn't hard in a Mexican community, where it's possible to be a fag…"

"I had flings with married men or men with girlfriends, with men who had children, sometimes as old as I was. They wen…"

"In high school the approaching graduation was stirring up excitement among the seniors. I didn't care much for any of…"

"I know what he means: the taste of language that is only spoken and never written because the speaker most likely doe…"

"Funerals in México are also about drowning sorrow with liquor. The coffee is spiked with tequila"

"I think, How clever time works, overlapping people's lives at certain stages, and as some eyes are waking up, others …"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"