Fruit of the Drunken Tree

by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

the tree had the unique ability of taking people’s free will.

Mamá was always coming up with weird metaphors. One time she said, “Trust is water in a glass; if you spill it, it’s gone forever,” as if she had never heard of mops or the cycle of rain and evaporation.

faces we see, hearts we don’t know.