If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

The half-life of love is forever.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.