La Chusa
La Chusa won first place in the Denver Woman’s Press Club’s 2014 Unknown Writers’ Contest.
It’s a haunting story of a math teacher and the not-so temporary student who changes her life.
Please enjoy this sample!
I used to call them Temporaries. The students who would come and go like fireflies dotting the night sky, there one moment and gone the next. Uprooted for their families who migrated to find work or visit relatives. I learned quickly to keep them at a distance, to not get attached, but that changed when Julieta came to my classroom. Now I’m haunted by the sound of beating wings.
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