Going the distance / Blanca Torres -- Scrambled channels / Yalitza Ferreras -- WhiteGirlColorlessAfriPana / Gail M. Dottin -- Nomadic / Ingrid Rojas Contreras -- Leaving Miami / Chantel Acevedo -- Las Otras / Celeste Guzman Mendoza -- Pancakes at 2 a.m. / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Independence / Iris Gomez -- Stories she told us / Daisy Hernández -- Who goes to college? / Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés -- I'm living in a foreign country / Toni Margarita Plummer -- My stalker / Lorraine M. López -- Rapunzel's ladder / Julia Alvarez -- Derrumbando Muros along an academic path / Norma Elia Cantú -- On becoming educated / Joy Castro -- La Silla / Ruth Behar -- The weight of paper / Beatriz Terrazas -- To my younger self / Erika Martínez -- After Yale / Li Yun Alvarado -- How to leave Hialeah / Jennine Capó Crucet -- Only daughter / Sandra Cisneros.