José Miguel | Fernando Sanjenís Gutiérrez
Short nonfiction from the coalitionist mixed bag. BIPOC writings.
José Miguel was sitting on the low yellow school chair when liquid brown began to trickle out of his red gym shorts. José Miguel kept his head down as the water ran down his shaking legs, staining his high white socks. Still, it flowed, hitting the side of his sneakers and forming an estuary, puddled on the tiled floor; I didn’t see him again until two decades later, when José Miguel, now bearded but otherwise just as I remembered him, disappeared and made the top story on the news for a week, reported missing by his mother and found on the beach dehydrated and disoriented.
Fernando is a Puerto Rican / Cuban writer and translator.