He knew the rule: Strange is the woman who goes strange places with a complete stranger.
Tag: Junot Díaz
We stared at each other for a second at the most, not enough for me to notice the shape of her ears or if her lips were chapped. I´ve fallen in love on less.
Boyfriend was trying to snake Girlfriend, saying he needed more space, and she was like, Motherfucker, I´ll give you all the space you need…He just needed more space to cheat.
You can´t be anywhere forever…
I pull out the plug of bills from my pockets. She takes it from me, her fingers soothing the creases. A man who treats his plata like this doesn´t deserve to spend it.
Her friends came and sat and talked and when Papi´s name was mentioned her eyes dimmed and when his name left, the darkness of her ojos returned and she would laugh, a small personal thunder that cleared the air.
He didn´t mind going anywhere; he was at that age when all he wanted to do was to be away from the family, meeting people he had not grown up with.
Mami might have been skinny, a bad thing on the Island, but she was smart and funny and that´s hard to find anywhere.
… when Abuelo was around (and awake) he talked to me about the good old days, when a man could still make a living from his finca, when the United States wasn´t something folks planned on.