Our good days (5) We ride fast and faster. Past my house, sad and red and crumbly in places, past Mr. Benny's grocery on the corner, and down the avenue which is dangerous. Laundoromat, junk store, drugstore, windows and cars and more cars....
laughter Nenny and I don't look like sisters…not right away. Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips everybody else in their family. But me and Nenny, we are more alike than you would know. Our la....
Gil's furniture bought sold There is a junk store. An old man owns it. We bought a used refrigerator form him once, and Carlos sold a box of magazines for a dollar. The store is small with just dirty window for light. He doesn't turn the li....
Meme Ortiz Around the back is a yard, mostly dirt,and a greasy bunch of boards that used to be a garage. but what you families of squirrels in the higher branches. All around, the nighborhood of roofs, black-tarred and A-framed, and in thei....
Louie,His CousinHis Other Cousin（1） Louie's girl cousin is older than us. She lives with Louie's family because her own family is in Puerto Rico. Her name is Marin or Maris or something like that, and she wears dark nylons all the time....
Marin We never see Marin until her aunt comes home from work, and even then she can only stay out in front. She is there every night with the radio. When the light in her aunt's room goes out, Marin lights a cigarette and it doesn't matter....
Those who don't Those who don`t know any better come into our neighborhood scared.They think we`re dangerous.They think we will attack them with shiny knives.They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistakes. But we aren`t afraid....
There was an old woman she had so many The kids bend trees and bounce between cars and dangle upside down from knees and almost break like fancy museum vases you can't replace. They think it's funny. They are without respect for all things....
Alicia who sees mice Alicia, whose mama died, is sorry there is no one older to rise and make the lunchbox tortillas. Alicia, who inherited her mama's rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the univ....
And some more…… The Eskimos got thirty different names for snow, I say. I read it in a book. I got a cousin, Rachel says. She got three different names. There ain't thirty different kinds of snow, Lucy says. There are two kinds. The cle....
