An excerpt from a longer essay.

Abstract: This essay explores machismo as a predator treating women, especially mothers, as prey. The essay defines machismo, tracks its existence in northwestern Argentina, who it hunts, how the hunted become victims preying upon themsel...

Here is a copy of my children's story  . 

The Magic Bed of Tucumán

By Alexandra Newton Rios

I.

My name is Gabriel.

I have a magic bed.

All I have to do is spin my globe of the world

before I go to sleep.

Where my finger lands

when it stops

is where I will go.

The wood of my...