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 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….
By Jake Toole/El Inde The University of Arizona Community Garden was an array of green last October. Corn was the most identifiable crop, towering over the rest of the green vegetables. Barbara Eiswerth, the director of Iskashitaa, a nonprofit that works to alleviate food insecurity in refugee and non-refugee communities in Tucson by harvesting unused…
