Ricardo cortez cruz biography

Ricardo Cortez Cruz

short fiction

Watch What God Do

2 a.m. is your hours. Your ours.

Staggering. You, Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old black woman, loose, alone. Estranged as if your party friends let go of the rope.

Just let it go. Now you find yourself in the hallway of the Crowne Plaza Hotel behaving like your/her mind has jumped out of her/e body, reeling toward some shit you didn’t even know, going backwards too. Back and forths. Up and down.

In and down.

Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) Film Actor - Obscure Hollywood

In & out. Psychoanalyzing yourself. You are that girl in the mirror. Reflecting on how you got here.

Ricardo cortez cruz biography

Roughly framed like a jezebel. Or, a woman with seven devils cast out of her, for Christ’s sake. You are Mary Magdalene, hair of wool sheepishly following you in two tales [sic]. You are Zipporah in exodus. Staggering.

Ricardo Cortez Cruz | Kirkus Reviews

Disoriented, struggling to recognize your behavior. You are them. We can clearly see: you are not yourself. The mirror stage becomes nothing but a false representation of who you really are. The hotel spa