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Chopper! Chopper!

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A yellow stream of light entered the cracked cortinas waking Xochitl up



Outside her window behind her bunk bed she could hear the Saturday morning ritual "Pop, pop, pop" breaking open the silence like a hand slapping, punching the air Bullets flying by to round red targets up on the hill in the cops' firing practice range getting ready to shoot one of the prisoners from Biscaluz or Sybil Brand anyone who escaped the metal confines of civilized justice that peered down on them Minutes fluttered by like a chuparosa as she watched Saturday morning cartoons ate her huevo con chorizo breakfast laughing with mouthfuls at Scooby-Doo then dressed her little self, soft like an empanada, in blue shorts, t-shirt, and her favorite tennies bought at Zody's to go outside and play with anyone standing on the calle First she sprinted through the yellow cocina jumped the little step to the backdoor She stood at the back door for a moment breathed in dust through the screen door...