Along These Highways
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: University of Arizona Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
One Last Drive North
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pp. 1-8
“This place doesn’t have a thirteenth floor,” Alfredo says out loud, not noticing the woman standing next to him in the elevator. She looks at him and gives him a shrug that tells him she doesn’t much care to share in his observations. Alfredo reads her body language for ...
Curses by Numbers
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pp. 9-14
Benny stood for a second in the doorway, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of Flojo’s before walking in. He hadn’t been in the bar in six and a half years, and it felt like coming home. Nothing had changed. Vicente and Liz hadn’t gotten rid of the ...
Remember, Before You Go
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pp. 15-26
Joey was disappointed that J.R.’s mother was not home when he walked across the street from his house to meet up with J.R. before going out that night. He had planned on getting all of his goodbyes for the Recio family out of the ...
AGROSOMAS
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pp. 27-34
...“At this point in the evening, we’d like to call to the microphone a member of the Garza family to say a few words and get on with the real reason we’re here tonight—you didn’t all dress up just for the free food and cocktails, you know.” Byron Chudley pauses -...
The Art of Making Something out of Nothing
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pp. 35-50
Memo stole the car, a white Oldsmobile 88 with holes in the floorboards and a tape of conjunto music stuck in the tape deck, from Evangelo, a punk-“Man, fuck him,” he said as he turned on the car with the keys he had taken from Evangelo’s house ...
Lost Days
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pp. 51-56
The shop was near empty when Virginia walked in. This was the benefit of taking the day off from work and going on these explorations and adventures, as she thought them to be, on a weekday. She had just gotten out of a movie at the Century ...
Ridin’ like a Balla
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pp. 57-59
Eric devised a plan regarding the wheels he would buy for his car after great consideration. He would get the wheels from Rent A Tire, who leased their tires and wheels for the cheapest prices of all the rent-to-own tire shops in Corpus, though their interest rates ...
Please Don’t
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pp. 61-69
“Please don’t leave me alone,” Jonathan said. “You’re all I have.
”Hearing those words coming out of his mouth, Jonathan hated him-self. Is there anything more pathetic than begging to be loved? Who would want to be loved out of pity, just to not be alone? Jonathan would. ...
Letting Go a Dream
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pp. 71-77
Ana walked to the side of her son’s house to take a look at his backyard be-fore knocking on his front door to announce her presence. Marcos’s back-yard was big, but Ana wasn’t looking at the lawn or trees. She was looking at the paved path that led to a basketball ...
Last Primer
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pp. 79-89
John David Gomez sits waiting for me in his 1986 LTD Crown Victoria, the same one his mother used to drive, though he has touched up the car’s paint and tinted its windows in the many years since she left him and the car at her mother’s house so that she could pursue ...
Pawelekville
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pp. 91-104
Night had fallen on Karnes County without Andy in Pawelekville, staking out the Carpentier house from the abandoned garage across Highway 123, as had been his plan. He was holed up at the Dairy Queen in Stockdale, regretting having ...
Random Punchlines
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pp. 105-118
At 5:45 a.m., the last of the stragglers had left. Most of the plastic cups that had been strewn about the back and front yards as well as all through the house were in trash bags. All of the vomit had been mopped up from the bathroom floors. It was a ...
Closeness to Taste
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pp. 119-133
William started giving pieces of himself to the hungry citizens of Austin, Texas, the first time he prepped dough at PizzaTex, which, incidentally, was the first time he had handled any food at the shop, aside from pulling pies off t ...
Acknowledgments
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p. 135-135
There are people too numerous to thank who have helped in some way with this book’s creation. Many of those people had nothing at all to do with any of the words in this book. Some of these people have never read these stories; a ...
About the Author
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p. 137-137
E-ISBN-13: 9780816599608
Print-ISBN-13: 9780816530106
Page Count: 152
Publication Year: 2012
Series Title: Camino del Sol
