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Under the King of Fools: A Question for an ICE Agent

by Reyna Espinoza What will you tell your children when they are grown and ask who you were?  Will you tell them the truth? Will you tell them you were cruel?  Will you tell them you enforced the rules?  “I did my duty,” you’ll say, as if duty were blameless, as if obedience absolved you, as if a…

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Mother Load

By Nancy Baker It was after the washing of the dinner pots and dishes, the reading of today’s paper, the tucking in bed of the younger ones. It was after I heard him say as he walked out the back door, “I’ll see you later,” and I responded, “Good luck…

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