Milestone 2005 Milestone 2005 EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE
Milestone 2005Milestone Milestone 2005 EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE EAST LOS EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE COVER ILLUSTRATION: Lizbeth Navarro M i l e s t o n e 2 0 0 5 East Los Angeles College Monterey Park, California M i l e s t o n e 2 0 0 5 Editor, Advisor Carol Lem Selection Staff Creative Writing Class of Spring 2005 Book Design Trish Glover Photography Christine Moreno Student Artwork Leopoldo Alvarez, Diana Barraza, Graciela Basulto, Shin-Yi Chiu, John Draisey, Rafael Esparza, Ngoun Hean, Ricardo Ibarra, Zong Da Li, Shugo Maino, Denise Monge, Jose Monge, Denise Monge, Lizbeth Navarro, Laura Urbino, Joel Zavala East Los Angeles College 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez Monterey Park, California 91754 Milestone is published by the East Los Angeles College English Department. Material is solicited from students of the college. A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them…; he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays…but wait! When I write, I like to have an interval before me when I am not likely to be interrupted. For me, this means usually the early morning, before others are awake. I get pen and paper, take a glance out of the window (often it is dark out there), and wait. — William Stafford, from “A Way of Writing” M i l e s t o n e 2 0 0 4 3 Contents Editor’s Note 7 Part I: The Work Monique C.
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