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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

Dismissed from Tlaltizapa for changing sex Manuel Palafox sulked in Arenista. At markets he bought chimoyas, limes and ink from Oaxtepec. Some days he wore his twenty-ounce sombrero, Deerskin pants and “charro” boots. On others Gold-embroidered blouses and red kerseymere skirts. He wrote to Magonistas; “Zapata is finished. He takes orders from Obregon. Rally the […]

The Lammas Hireling

After the fair, I’d still a light heart and a heavy purse, he struck so cheap. And cattle doted on him: in his time mine only dropped heifers, fat as cream. Yields doubled. I grew fond of company that knew when to shut up. Then one night,   disturbed from dreams of my dear late […]

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