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IT WASN’T JUST AN ACCIDENT I was in the middle of my night shift at Chicago General Hospital when the emergency alarms blared: three trauma…

My girlfriend’s parents hated me. On my way to meet them, I stopped to help fix a woman’s vintage car. I arrived late and covered…

The bus journey had lasted twelve interminable hours, but Lucía didn’t mind the backache or the accumulated fatigue in her sixty-year-old legs. In her lap,…

The insistent buzzing of my phone broke the deathly silence of my apartment. It was 2:00 a.m. I looked at the screen and saw “Mom”…

The day the silence was broken Chapter 1: The Birthday Massacre The first gift flew against the wall at 3:47 PM on a Saturday in…

Roberto always believed that his wife was a perfect woman, elegant, refined, impeccable before the world and supposedly the ideal mother for his daughter. Ever…

—Go find another table. This one is for family, not adopted children. My sister Victoria’s voice echoed through the elegant dining room of El Mirador de…

Seventeen-year-old Tobias Rainer had grown up moving through the gleaming glass corridors of the Rainer Plaza Hotel with the quiet authority that comes from being…

The sound of the heavy oak door closing echoed like a gunshot in the frigid Christmas Eve. There were no hugs, no carols, no warmth…











