“I mean the fantastical is as old as stories themselves, is perhaps where stories begin, but when a Latin American uses that trope we are immediately categorized. Boxes are safe. Safety doesn’t interest me, not in art. “
* Gina Balibrera *
For my part, I remember regularly, systemically, intruding upon my little sister’s dreamstate. The idea occurred to me one night as she snored in the pull-out trundle beneath my twin bed. A perfect motor inside of her. Four years younger than me, I could pick her up whenever I felt like it, and I would. That night I lifted her into the closet, placed her gently amongst the sneakers, and shut the door, hopped back onto my bed. She awoke with a start, a snort, a gasp.
