The Beginnings
The Year So Far
- Restraining order
- Midnight something
- The long run-on sentence that nobody bothered to read
- The worst driving in the world
- Pilgrimage
- I’ll never be alone again
- Bound for America
- Lost in Mexico City
- Saint Hispanic Barbie
- La Casa Cultura
- Mexico then, Mexico now
- Hoy no circula
- The Inez I used to know
- The wrong thing
- A name I like
- There’s no turning back now
- Panhandling for Dummies
- This is all that matters
- All I need to do
- Veracruz
- Enchufe mucoso
- Forever starts here
- Pursuit in ten dollar increments
- Out of the jungle and into a Hummer commercial
- The chain of harms is broken here
- Tlacoteotalpan
- Into the rainforest
- A schoolbus, deluged
- Husband, boyfriend, something like that
- Welcome to my nadir
- Into thin air
- The flight from Nick
- My own private Amelia Earhart
- Bus to nowhere
- Instant accelerating devolution
- There’s still time to stop
- Uncomfortable places
- The King and I
- Saint Anastasia’s Day
- How to ruin a romantic evening in 1 simple step
- Trench warfare
- Museo de la Inquisicion
- Lunch and loathing with Beto
- We’re having a baby
- Inflection point
- A test, pass or fail
- Bullets don’t look back
- Missing records
- Wendy’s life advice and abortion counseling service
- Requiem for a future
- Evasions
- Alone in Aldama
- Mosquito, meet Jet Engine
- The bottomless place
- God made a window just for me
- Mazatlan on three nauseam a day
- Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…
- The land of drugs, jungle, and sunshine — and one pee-worthy Pemex
- Life is a long, long walk together
- Last night in Chirbampo
- Bad memories, worse mojo
- All I want
- My valentine tomorrow
- A prison visit without the prison
- If it’s 9 AM and you’re doing tequila shots with the mayor, this must be Chirbampo
- The crayfish that came to dinner
- Strike with no end
- Chirbampo is dead
- Hellbound
- A near future of fornication
- Meeting the mayor
- Morning breath kisses
- Chirbampo
- Allah and Martin Luther go to the Sonoran desert
- Buying and selling Nooshin
- Hasta luego, Tijuana
- Going south
- Humberto’s
- Dilemmas I don’t want
- Ruin of his day
- Upside downside
- My death in Mexico
- My first time on TV
- A stranger calls
- Lessons in bribery
- Two days of Tijuana remembering
- First Lady of Infinity
- Just another day in heaven and hell
- The girl at the Pemex station
- Generation gaps
- Making the happiness last
- Tecate
- The hairy back on the opposite side of the bed
- I can’t break his heart through a condom
- Bravery has as many letters as Nooshin
- My world tilts
- Keeping it professional
- Severely sleepless
- Beaches of Tijuana
- Maquiladora Alley
- Behind one schedule, ahead of another
- Pretty good enough
- Archivo Municipal del Ciudad de Tijuana
- A world coming closer
- Opening archives like pulltabs
- Asleep and ignorant
- A New Year’s I’ll never forget
- Here comes the rain again
- Nicknaming Nooshin
- Our first visitor
- The list with almost everything on it
- The world outside my (barred) window
- Touring Colonia Aviacion
- America in the rearview mirror
- Noche not-so-Buena
- Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
- The corner of Bus and Truck
- No compromise
- Camping indoors
- In the middle of the ocean
- Twas the week before Xmas
- A Christmas card for my buddy
- Future absences
- My first camping trip
- Wank fuel
- Surviving Hercules
- Ready, set, grade!
- Good eye open, bad eye closed
- Costumed waver
- Laundry day
- I hate hangovers
- Prisoner of public transportation
- A message to my leukocytes
- Queen of an impoverished country
- The big welcome back
- Forever ends today
- Inbox revelations
- The distant EXIT sign
- Dance parties of the damned
- Where the numbers dance
- The end of lame
- The moon went missing
- Mouth on autopilot
- Unprotected
- Ruthie redux
- Saman is from Mars, I’m from Venus, and our future just left the solar system
- File under holidays, happy
- The voice that went someplace far away
- Everything feels like welcome home
- 21
- The girl becoming gone
- Denial is my only defense tonight
- Bitch work
- Meeting Saman
- The appendix of the bureaucracy
- Remorse code
- Under my skin, into my head, through my ribcage
- Avoiding the inevitable
- Nosebreaker
- Canyon Sin Nombre
- Tijuana for only $300 a month
- Leaving must happen soon
- Pieces of her
- The same Nooshin he’s always had
- Under my skin
- The connection goes dead
- Mexico on $12,000 a year
- A little past midnight
- The girl on Avenida Revolucion
- Distant transmission
- The library and wanking again
- San Diego solitaire
- Two wrongs
- Becoming American
- Long ways from Iowa
- In Iran the wind has eyes
- Flaming hoops of bullshit
- Life with and without Saman
