Reflections

  • Waltz Through Wilting Gardens

    In a Pacific Northwest rainforest where memory slips strangely through time, Annie and Anil wander through love, pain, premonition, and the haunting shadow of loss. Years later, grief-stricken Annie returns to the peninsula where it all ended and began, seeking meaning in what remains—and discovering, through the eternal power of nature, that perhaps she never…

  • My Brother, the Hunter

    My Brother, the Hunter is a dark ecological fable about a solitary forest creature and the boy he comes to love as a brother. As men destroy the jungle around them, the boy is slowly drawn into their world, and the tenderness that once bound the two gives way to estrangement, violence, and an irreversible…

  • The Long Way Home

    In “The Long Way Home,” Esmeralda, a Mexican American girl in Tucson, defies her mother’s warnings and takes a forbidden route through the desert on her way to school. There, she encounters Coatlicue, who tells her the story of Aztlán, Tenochtitlan, and the eagle and serpent. As danger closes in, Esmeralda begins to understand both…