aureleo sans
aureleo sans is a writer based in San Antonio, Texas. He is an alumnus of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and the 2021 Tin House Summer Workshop and a reader at jmww. His work is forthcoming in Boston Review, the 2022 Roots. Wounds. Words. anthology, The Offing, Passages North, and The Commuter. You can find him on Twitter at @aureleos.
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Author’s Note
I was working as a cashier at Home Depot, one of hundreds of jobs Ma held during my childhood. They paid her $7.50 an hour. She’s never earned more than that. A couple months before, I had escaped the Gothic parapets and gargoyles of Duke University a semester early. My closeted-and-questioning, Colombian, disabled, obese, child-of-an-immigrant, […]
desire homes
Three days after her birth, her mother’s death, and the inaugural snowflake of Winter Storm Uri, Paloma Vega opened her eyes. The neighborhood bunkered in the hospital’s chapel, waiting it out and defrosting. Ruby, the housekeeper with the emerald eyelids and celadon scrubs, had ushered them in single file. Jelly slinked against the stained glass […]