Ariel Gore is a Lambda Literary and Alternative Press award-winning editor and the author of eleven books, including The Hip Mama Survival Guide, Atlas of the Human Heart (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award), and Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness. Her memoir The End of Eve and her novel We Were Witches both won New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. Her spell collection, Hexing the Patriarchy, is out now from Seal Press. She has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the University of New Mexico and currently teaches online at literarykitchen.com.
Introduction
Part I: A Land of Entrapment
"The Sandbox Story" by Candace Walsh (Eldorado)
"All Eyes" by Katie Johnson (Aspen Vista)
"The Cask of Los Alamos" by Cornelia Read (Los Alamos)
"The Homeless Detective" by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington (Cerrillos Road)
"SOS Sex" by Hida Viloria (Casa Alegre)
Part II: The Children of Water
"Táchii'nii: Red Running into the Water" by Byron F. Aspaas (Pacheco
Street)
"Waterfall" by Elizabeth Lee (Ten Thousand Waves)
"The Night of the Flood" by Ana June (Casa Solana)
"La Llorona" by Israel Francisco Haros Lopez (Santa Fe River)
Part III: What It Feels Like to Be Haunted
"Close Quarters" by Jimmy Santiago Baca (Drury Plaza Hotel)
"Divina: In Which Is Related a Goddess Made Flesh" by Ana Castillo (La
Fonda on the Plaza Hotel)
"Hunger" by Miriam Sagan (St. Catherine Indian School)
"I Boycott Santa Fe" by Tomas Moniz (Rancho Viejo)
Part IV: What We Do with the Bodies
"Buried Treasure" by Kevin Atkinson (Santa Fe National Forest)
"Nightshade" by Ariel Gore (Santa Fe Railyard)
"Behind the Tortilla Curtain" by Barbara Robidoux (Southside)
"Me and Say Dog" by James Reich (Santa Fe Plaza)
