Other than the competition thing, B-B kids are like kids everywhere. We find our crew and stick with them. No matter what. Just like in Lord of the Flies. Which, for the record, I’m pretty sure was based on a true story.

Esteban del Valle is a Brooklyn, NY based interdisciplinary artist originally from Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. from RISD and has exhibited his work and produced murals internationally.

Sydney, sensing that Kendra’s small, fractured family was a sensitive subject, would sneak into Kendra’s room to look at the raggedy, over-stuffed photograph albums that her grandmother stowed away under her bed.

It had been three years to the day since she started chemo. I remembered how the lace wig she ordered online from Light in the Box didn’t fit. She had her mother re-tailor it.

She sipped from her cup of cafecito, resisting the urge to smack this pendejita who was more upset about a letter than her husband being a daily piece of basura.