Next Year in Havana

by Chanel Cleeton

The Americans preach liberty, and freedom, and democracy at home, and practice tyranny throughout the rest of the world.

At the end of the day, the only thing you have left is what you stand for.

“Terrible things rarely happen all at once,” she answers. “They’re incremental, so people don’t realize how bad things have gotten until it’s too late.

When you’re young, life’s punctuation so often seems final when it’s nothing more than a pause.