Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of the novel Like Happiness, named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, ELLE and THEM, and the flash story collection Math for the Self-Crippling. Her writing has appeared in dozens of publications including Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Catapult, Prairie Schooner, Story,Bennington Review, and others. Mrs. Suzanne Elizondo was the best English teacher she ever had.
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Ursula Villarreal-Moura. Here’s an excerpt: Within a month of knowing her, Irina had turned me on to shoplifting. I was hooked on the…