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No one talks about "el rancho." Not in town, not even in whispers. The road that once led to it is half-swallowed by mesquite and dust, like the land itself is trying to forget. But I can still see the outline of the gate when I close my eyes- the rusted arch, the crooked wire fence, the silence that wasn’t really silence at all. “I don’t know where the wind is taking me,” I whisper, staring down the dirt road. “I can’t go back. It disappeared.” People say the wind carries memories out here. That it knows things. That it saw things. When it...
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(This story explores themes of illness, grief, and life during a pandemic, told through the lens of a child.)The white metal gate clangs shut behind me, and I hop over the first crack in the sidewalk – you can't step on the lines, everyone knows that brings bad luck. My mother grips my hand tightly and walks so fast that my little legs have to do a funny dance to keep up, like a baby roadrunner from the cartoons Papa and I watch on Sundays."Don't touch anything," she reminds me for the third time since we left home. I swing our joined hands ...
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