By Rosa Garcia/El Inde In the middle of the night, Becky Mckiddy-Gydesen walked down a partially dark hallway inside her childhood home. It was an old home made out of wood in a normal neighborhood. The floor made an old creaking sound as she walked through it. Suddenly, an old family picture frame mysteriously flipped…
By Abbie Kosoc/El Inde The fire season back in the year of 2016 was a long one. Thirty year-old Karl Yares and his fellow wildfire responders had been camping out on standby for over a month while awaiting the call to tame a fire. While anxiously expecting calls, Yares and his buddies would pass the…
By Kristopher Yanez/El Inde From the living room of Mariah Haga’s one-bedroom apartment, alongside her mother, her younger brother, and Cooper, her stout black-and-brown basset hound-mix — the choir of voices crescendoed together as they eagerly counted down the remaining seconds of December 31, 2019. Hasty for a new beginning, Haga was “coming in hot.”…
By Sofia Moraga/El Inde I was such a good kid before meeting them all, my friends. I would go to class, come home, do my work, cook myself dinner, maybe watch Netflix and then fall asleep. Nothing ever happened to me. I didn’t have many friends and my life was pretty, well, boring. Safe, but…
By Ciara Jean/El Inde Four years ago, Mariel Montiel got into her car with a small Mexican hot chocolate cupcake and drove across Tucson to her friend Megan’s work. She was on a mission. She needed to know if the cupcake that she just created was actually good or if she was just imagining things….
