Archive - A Chicano In Paris

The Parisii - Before Paris Was Paris

Part One of the History of Paris

Dec 12 • Rudy Martinez

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The Parisii - Before Paris Was Paris

Paris wasn't always Paris. Before the Eiffel Tower, before Notre-Dame, before croissants and café culture, there was a Celtic tribe living along the…

Dec 12 • Rudy Martinez

Boys and Their Mothers, Man

In a previous letter, someone asked if you and Uncle Charlie didn’t always get along because he was gay. Of all the possible reasons for friction…

Dec 10 • Rudy Martinez

He died in your arms. You didn’t care that he’d bled on you. You didn’t want to let your brother go. You wept.I have often thought that a part of you…

Dec 2 • Rudy Martinez

The Green Bay Packers

You never told me your stories. I had to hear them from Grandma and Uncle Charlie. Stories about being left to sleep outside in the car in the driveway…

Dec 1 • Rudy Martinez

November 2025

I don’t remember the point of this letter. I just felt a sense of obligation to write something considering it’s that day. I wish you were still here…

Nov 19 • Rudy Martinez

Letter seven 17-11-2025

I swear, I had a point when I started. Somewhere along the way I lost it.

Nov 17 • Rudy Martinez

In a Million Lifetimes

When I tell people my dad is the strongest person I’ve ever known, it isn’t because you could beat the shit out of their dad (which, let’s be honest…

Nov 15 • Rudy Martinez

Maybe Is a Nothing Word

A Letter To My Father

Nov 14 • Rudy Martinez

The Stuff of You

I like to imagine that the stuff of you is floating around Orion while Uncle Charlie is lingering near the moon. I don’t know why, I just know that when…

Nov 12 • Rudy Martinez

The Weight of "If"

Forgiving you for leaving us the way you did was difficult work, but easier to do than forgiving you for how you left one of my siblings believing it…

Nov 11 • Rudy Martinez

A Little Girl is Burying Her Daddy

A Letter to My Father

Nov 10 • Rudy Martinez

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