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Cameron Bocanegra
Writer, Poet, Austinite
United States
United States
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Fiction / Poetry
Through the window, I observe the man from the jackets of my overdue library books. He broods in a cafe booth. A bell jingles as I walk inside. He glances at me idly. I proceed to his corner and shove a firm hand forward. He hesitates, wets his lips with his tongue, and says, “I don’t shake.”
Dear Mrs. Rivera, I don't know anything that may give your search a lead or a forensic team a clue. Nicole and I met in college. Between our shared part-time jobs, we swam in the local lake after sunset, where she swore that she could walk on water.
On a cool Wednesday night, the youngest girl says she wants to do magic tricks like Houdini. The next morning, after their parents leave for work and before the babysitter with the lazy eye arrives, her older sisters sneak into the sleeping girl's bedroom.
I wake up to Mama saying Baby’s crying woke her after I laid him down to sleep last night. She and the housekeeper tighten the sheets and roll me to the center of the bed. Mama leans over and lays her palm against my cheek, leaving an oily stain of melted animal fat. She runs a finger from my widow's peak, over the subtle unibrow, and across the fuzzy bow of my lip, finishing at the mole she also wears on her chin...
I wonder what we must look like from the skylight above the foyer: two families forming a ring around me, the pupil of a blonde eye.
Editorial
It is a sunny afternoon in Greece by the time 3-month-old and first-generation Wacoan Kalliroi Kelly-Lentis wakes in her crib. She has her father's blue eyes, with a tint of gold from her mother. The most American thing about her is her grandmother's blood and the colorful bibs with English catchphrases.
Getting sick is supposed to come in waves. You wake up with a stuffy nose and the next day, a scratchy throat. It is supposed to be subtle.
Story by Cameron Bocanegra | Photo by Aadil Shelkh Jazz Johnson did his homework in a doctor's office and called it a childhood. He lived in a nice neighborhood filled with cleanly cut lawns, attended a private school and played basketball while his father worked as an orthopedic surgeon and his mother played her part as a good wife and mother.
They sleep a few nights at their friend’s house, then a week at their aunt’s. And then they still have to figure out whose couch they will be on next. Students who experience homelessness are 87 percent more likely to drop out of school and 4.5 times more likely to become homeless adults.
It’s 2002, and Andrea Toledo is six years old. She doesn’t know English yet. She is supposed to be in the midst of kindergarten, but she is in the back of a car her parents just bought in Miami, Florida, and driving straight to Austin, Texas. Her family’s life is moving fast and farther away from their home in Caracas, Venezuela, but there is talk of going back after her father completes his master’s degree in theology in the U.S.
Laughter and chatter echoed through the campus of Indian Spring Middle School, where students were eagerly reading and discussing books. They hunched over paperbacks that sparked their interest, learning about inspiring people of color who succeeded despite stigmas.
Reporting
For 35 years, the popular McGraw-Hill historical text series Taking Sides: Clashing Views in U.S. History has been edited and authored by former history professors. Now the baton has been passed to Baylor School of Education faculty Dr. Tony L. Talbert and Dr. Kevin R. Magill.
Four graduates of the Baylor Sport Management master's program are making significant contributions to two of the nation's elite basketball programs, and they've done so without leaving campus. Right here at Baylor, these graduates were a part of NCAA Tournament runs for both the women's and men's basketball teams, and helped the Lady Bears achieve a No.
A recent nationally represented survey done in Baylor's sociology department revealed that white male gun owners who have struggled economically are most emotionally connected to their guns. The survey is published in the journal Social Problems and was conducted by the Gallup Organization in 2014, reaching 1,572 people in the United States.
WACO, Texas - During its regular quarterly meeting, the Baylor University Board of Regents celebrated the University reaching Research 1 status and eclipsing the $1.1 billion goal of the Give Light philanthropic campaign, received an update on the Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion and participated in a discussion about Baylor's holistic approach to student success.
Mansfield senior Sierra Smith participated as a keynote speaker on the sexual assault panel at the Texas Tribune Festival over the weekend. She spoke on recent Title IX changes and her advocacy of a bill that would require state colleges and universities that receive public funding to mark the transcripts of students suspended or expelled even after they have transferred.