Daniel Garcia

Daniel Garcia’s essays appear in Quarterly West, Guernica, Passages North, the Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Poems appear in Ploughshares,Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Electric Literature, swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), and others. Daniel is the InteR/e/views editor for Split Lip Magazine, a two-time Lambda Literary fellow, and a former Emerging Writer fellow with SmokeLong Quarterly. Daniel’s essays also appear as notables in The Best American Essays. Find Daniel on Twitter/X @_iloveyoudaniel.

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The Other Side

Daniel Garcia  | 
Issue 73.2 Spring 2024

I’m twenty-four and standing at the front-desk window in the on-campus clinic of my university. It’s a year before the wedding, and the student receptionist slides the request-for-services paperwork across the counter like a ticket to someplace I’ve never been and tells me it’ll be between three and six months before someone can see me. […]