Borderzine (https://borderzine.com/author/drauda/)
Fresh from a 3-month-long internship with Scripps Howard News Service in Washington D.C., Denisse Rauda is a Print Media senior looking forward to graduation this year 2009 and what lies thereafter. Born in Los Angeles and raised in El Paso, Denisse feels the need to explore the world and that she is destined to become a mover and a shaker.
No longer the woman she once was, an aged shell, wrinkled by time sits in the center of a plaid loveseat. Her skin, fragile and thin, pours from a hospital gown in gentle, flaking cascades while she watches her afternoon telenovela. Entangled in her hands, a thin clear hose connects her to a machine that pumps oxygen into her nostrils…
EL PASO — One hundred scholars from different countries and universities gathered at the University of Texas at El Paso to showcase, research and critique contemporary Mexican literary work.