Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 10 • I Am Afraid • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 11 • Remember Me • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 12 • Missing Person Poster • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 13 • I Cannot Call You • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 14 • I Am Walking, Someone Lurks • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 15 • I Am Missing • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 16 • A Few Minutes After 1:00 a.m. • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 18 • Sour, Patch, Kid • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 20 • Four Corners • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 22 • Search Continues, Notes from a Blog • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 24 • Media Fades with Age, Its Disability • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 25 • You Have Always Watched Me • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 26 • The Sun Rises in the Night • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 27 • The Undoing of a Future Doctor • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 29 • Far from Malibu Along the Canyon Road • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 30 • The Demons You Live with • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 31 • Questions Are Not Answers • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 32 • Conditions Remain, Unrecognizable • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 33 • Your Face Is Unrecognizable • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 34 • Lady of the Lake • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 36 • Peeking Through the Miniblinds • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 37 • A Trip Abroad • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 38 • Sheltered Less Than Home • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 40 • You Are Not Looking, I Am Right Here • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 41 • Activist • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 43 • In Town on Business • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 44 • Unaccounted Time • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 45 • The City Takes the Girl • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 46 • Don't Leave Me There • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 47 • Cliffs of Hakalau • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 48 • Waves Crashing • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 49 • Highway Storage • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 50 • Pocatello Girls • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 52 • Princess of the South Side • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 53 • Snow Angel • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 55 • Down the Hill • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 57 • Timeline of a Disappearance • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 59 • Waves of Three • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 61 • Iowa State Coed • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 63 • Sing Us a Lullaby • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 65 • Slept Away • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 66 • Movement Through a Telescope • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 67 • The Forest Knows Who Did It • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 68 • I Am Coming • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 69 • Fields Solve Nothing • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 70 • The Guilty Remain Silent • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 71 • Contestant in a Maine Beauty Pageant • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 72 • Abandoned Buildings • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 73 • No Success, No Surrender • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 74 • Riding with Devils • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 75 • Silence Within Your Walls • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 76 • The Things of Childhood • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 77 • Gas Station Light • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 79 • The Trust of Friends • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 80 • Dusted Off Retirement • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 81 • Unlucky Seven • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 82 • Silent Car Engine • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 83 • Doe-Eyed • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 84 • What Amount Is Enough? • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 85 • A Young Woman Vanishes, the Police Can't Find Her • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 86 • Brazilian Missionaries • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 87 • Why Didn't Anyone Walk You Home? • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 88 • All Questions, No Answers • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 89 • Look Alike • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 91 • The Newspaper Bleeds • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 92 • Day at the Park • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 93 • Mother of Magic • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 94 • The Photo Gave Hope • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 95 • Home Was So Close • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 96 • Rock-a-Bye • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 97 • The Story of a Girl • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 98 • She Left the Highway • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 99 • I Am Going for a Walk • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 100 • She Was My Friend • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 101 • Not Enough Money to Find You • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 102 • Day at the Office • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 103 • Messaging You • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 104 • She Stands on the Grove • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 106 • My Valentine • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 107 • Blackberry Bushes • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 108 • Apple of My Eye • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 109 • Bitter Home • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 110 • Pieces of Information • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 111 • He Bought You a Poney • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 112 • Island Song • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 114 • Discard the Words • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 115 • Compass • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 116 • Judge Dismisses Murder Charges in Missing Girl's Case • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 117 • Shotgun Jane Doe • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 118 • Imagine the Alternative • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 119 • Private.First.Class • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 121 • Encased in Amber • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 122 • Family Dysfunction • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 123 • Victim of America's Serial Killer • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 124 • We Need to See You • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 125 • U.S. Route 29 • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 126 • A Mother Cannot Move on Without You • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 127 • Listen to the Pins Fall • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 129 • Spiritual Journey • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 131 • The Smell of Tires Burning • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 132 • Belle at the Ball • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 133 • Driving Beams • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 134 • Step Right Up • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 136 • Tell Me Later What You Saw Up There • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 137 • I Am Gone • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 138 • A Woman of Color Has Gone Missing, in Three Parts • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 142 • Echo • poem by Cynthia Pelayo
• 143 • About • poem by Cynthia Pelayo