The Memory of a Hate Crime

When you are attacked for who you are

Carlos Garbiras
Scribe
Published in
1 min readDec 26, 2022
Photo by Annie Theby on Unsplash

He stared hard at the table. He wanted to lose himself in the reverie of mindlessly looking at the grain and how whoever painted it gingerly followed the natural weaving of the wood.

He didn’t want to think again about his attacker, but he began describing it to the police.

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Carlos Garbiras
Scribe

Award-winning essayist and solo performer sorting out the deeply ingrained neurosis of a topsy-turvy upbringing in Colombia and immigrating to the SF Bay Area.