“If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.” FearAbuseMagical RealismIndigenous PeoplesSouthwestern Book:The Flower in the Skull Source: The Flower in the Skull
“He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.” DesertArizonaCactusSouthwestern Book:The Expendable Man Source: The Expendable Man