Angry Blood by Estella Gonzalez
When the Chilanga head housekeeper with the red hair and eyebrows like Maria Felix came around to inspect the floors, Merced didn’t blink. Did the Chilanga think this was Merced’s first time training a new hotel worker? She’d done this many times before. The only difference was that this time she was training her daughter Alma.
Kweli is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by readers like you and by grants from organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Amazon Literary Partnership and the Whiting Foundation.
Kweli Journal is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
