Bessie Flores Zaldívar

Bessie Flores Zaldívar is a writer and poet from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bessie has a MFA in Fiction from Virginia Tech and her work has appeared in Foglifter, HAD, [PANK], Palette, and elsewhere. Bessie's fiction chapbook, Rain Revolutions, is out now through Long Day Press.

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Bessie Flores Zaldívar  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

Chapter 1 Mami honks for the third time, and that’s how I know it’s not going to be a good day. Her hand stays pressed to the steering wheel’s heart for several seconds, making the inside of the car and my ears vibrate. “Puta, every single morning with you three. Where is your brother? […]