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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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Suffer the Lacerated Children

by Khristy L. Knudtson I spend five days of my seven educating teenagers pretending I’m not an emotional delinquent with the same “mommy issues” as the boy with the overgrown yellow hair in the back row with the newly minted scars.  He radiates pain like a nuclear bomb everywhere he…

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