NONFICTION
Craft Literary
“Comfort Animals”
The cat on the proposed book cover—a white-whiskered piebald—shouldn’t have surprised me . . .
Saw Palm
“Flight to Cuba”
About thirty years ago in Miami on a torpid summer day, someone—maybe my abuela—bought me a balloon . . .
1966
“I’ve Got Gordon Ralfe’s Number”
My first crush was Kevin. We were in the same classroom at Henry F. Kite Elementary School in Jacksonville . . .
Journal of Florida Literature
“Native (soy de florida)”
It is snowing now, and I am thinking of Florida. But not of the Florida people seem to envision when I answer the question: “Where are you from?” . . .