“Buzzin’ from start to finish, an unexpected bilingual knock-out punch!”—Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States“Call these stories what you will: flashes, shards, fragments, splinters. For me, this is narrative shaved to the quick—necessary and nuanced, at once urgent and pithy, as insightful as they are carefully made. Take your time with these fictions, folks. With Frederick Aldama, our borderlands, real and imagined, are in the most artful of hands.”—Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories “Aldama stuns, surprises, and delights. This is no small feat. He is a linguistic trapeze high-wire artist and delivers verbal theatrics, the likes of which will stay in your mind and heart for a very long time.”—Denise Chávez, author of The King and Queen of Comezón