by Birdie Jaworski
A man carrying a hunting rifle squints. He stands on the rim of a bowl-shaped depression, his mustache dripping with sweat. Heat rises from sparse desert scrub, from the splay of dust-splattered pick-up trucks belching bloodied flesh. His boots barely sink into ground as he gingerly makes his way down the canyon side; there is no …
Nancy Bohm held a warm cup of chai tea. She glanced at a painting splashed in hues of rich reds, the black of midnight. It hung, heavy, against an off-white wall. The fierce bodies of stag, antlers angled in flight, seemed to leap from the paint, as if the canvas caught fire.
“I’m finishing old pieces, heavy pieces, pieces that have …
by Birdie Jaworski
Karoline Puentes’s voice remains level as she talks about the night a young man named Rodrigo Baca attacked her, left her for dead on the side of dimly lit Santa Fe street.
"He beat me nearly to death, leaving me permanently disabled. It took me months to recover some sense of normal life."
Puentes didn’t allow the horrific attack to …
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