The first time I heard the Gypsy Kings, I was somewhere down, deep, in Andalucia, southern Spain, the land of past conquerors, sultans, conquistadors. It was hot there, always this searing heat, which
during the day danced wildly, reflecting itself off the sand and water, the light fracturing itself into pieces, falling on all those willing or not.
Sara Sloan Bailey is an MFA student in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University in NYC, as well as a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Her most recent publications were featured in Saucy Vox, Rumble, LitBits, and an anthology regarding “Texans on Texas,” by Big [T]ext. She is currently working on a memoir about coming of age in Texas.