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Melissa Herrera

More than

The morning is damp, as rain drizzles slowly against my window. Today I struggle for words, and my tongue and brain are twisted into knots…

Aug 25, 2021

More than

Aug 25, 2021

Our Town

You can’t erase someone’s memories. Even when someone decries your right to remember. I dislike using the word ‘right’ but silly objections…

Aug 15, 2021

Aug 15, 2021

That Facebook Post

I made a post on FB several days ago that was a long time coming. I post differently on different platforms. This one needed to be on…

Aug 15, 2021

Aug 15, 2021

I met an undocumented man and fell in love.

If you read my book TOÑO LIVES you know that my husband was captured and jailed after an attempted train robbery. This was after many…

Apr 29, 2021

I met an undocumented man and fell in love.

Apr 29, 2021

It’s been one hell of a year.

I want to end it by starting this space. Something new. Something uncensored.

Dec 30, 2020

Dec 30, 2020

Indifference defined in 140 characters or less

Some days I want to slink back into bed and hole up there with a stack of books, sinking down deep into the cushiony splendor that are my…

Jan 10, 2020

Jan 10, 2020

Ghost of children in super center aisles

I opened my car door, and with a practiced economy of movement, slid out with my purse neatly over my shoulder. The heat of the day hit me…

Jan 10, 2020

Ghost of children in super center aisles

Jan 10, 2020

A Tiny Coiled Animal

I sit at my tiny desk, a girl of six in a first-grade classroom. My feet are clad in tennis shoes, dangling from the blonde wood chair…

Jan 10, 2020

A Tiny Coiled Animal

Jan 10, 2020

Melissa Herrera

Melissa Herrera

Opinion columnist, poet, and author of TOÑO LIVES (tinyurl.com/Tonolives). Collector of castoffs, curator of horror movies.

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