"The ruins" / by Patricia Preciado Martin
"The iguana killer" / by Alberto Alvaro Ríos
"Doña Toña of Nineteenth Street" / by Louie The Foot González
"Juana Inés" / by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
"Abuela" / by Rosa Elena Yzquierdo
"Nubes" from Nambé
year one / by Orlando Romero
"The horned toad" / by Gerald Haslam
"The moths" / by Helena Maria Viramontes
"The scholarship jacket" / by Marta Salinas
"The circuit" / by Francisco Jiménez
"Concha" / by Mary Helen Ponce
"Eleven" / by Sandra Cisneros
from Pocho / by José Antonio Villarreal
"Sister Katherine" / by David Nava Monreal
"Una edad muy tierna, m'ija" / by Thelma Reyna
"Salomon's story" from Tortuga / by Rudolfo Anaya
Prologue for The Comstock journals (or Sotol City blues) / by Olivia Castellano
"The bike" from A summer life / by Gary Soto
"The castle" / by Ron Arias
"The McCoy Hotel" / by Denise Chávez.