CONTENTS

1. CAST OF CHARACTERS
2. PART I: COMO LA FLOR, TANTO AMOR
3. Dreaming of You
4. I’m So Lonely I Grow a New Hymen
5. My Sisters and I Would Watch the Selena Movie
6. 6'5" Looking for Something Casual that Has the Potential to Be Something More ;)
7. I Watch Selena’s Open-Casket Funeral
8. Just to Make Things Clear, I Am Not a Haunted Person
9. What If Selena Taught Me How to Fake an Orgasm
10. El Chico del Apartamento 512
11. Karaoke Interlude
12. Crush Sonnets
13. I’m Not a Virgin But
14. The Future Is Lodged Inside of the Female
15. Resurrecting Selena
16. I’m Not Sure What to Do with Her, Exactly
17. El Chisme According to Others: Selena at the Halloween Party
18. PART II: ME MARCHO HOY
19. Selena and Me
20. Selena on the Train
21. Hi, Uh, Hi, Hello, You’ve Reached Melissa
22. Selena and You
23. I Take Selena to a Poetry Reading
24. In the Middle of My Poem
25. A Star Is Born Again
26. Selena Asks for Directions
27. I Try to Go On with My Life
28. I Will Name It She
29. Who’s That Girl?
30. Mami Calls Me to Tell Me She Had a Dream
31. If You Could Give It a Name, Who Would She Be?
32. Papi Calls Me
33. Dear Ms. Melissa Lozada-Oliva
34. Abraham Quintanilla is Out for My Blood
35. Yolanda Saldivar Gets Away With It
36. In Which I Answer All of the Questions from My Imaginary and Very Important Interview of the Future
37. El Chisme According to Others: Yolanda at the Gay Bar
38. PART III: YO SE PERDER
39. Yolanda Tells Me
40. Yolanda Tells Me What Happened that Night
41. March 31, 1995
42. My Lover Shows Me His Gun Collection
43. Remember that Yolanda Was a Little Girl Once
44. What If Reclaimed the Woman
45. Will We Ever Stop Crying About the Dead Star
46. Dead Celebrity Prom
47. You and Me Don’t Talk Anymore
48. Poem for Fucking a Fish
49. I Made You a Playlist to Get the Real You Back Even Though Real You Doesn’t Listen to the Lyrics
50. We Cry About It Together
51. Yolanda Leaves a Note
52. El Chisme According to Others: Where Is Selena?
53. PART IV: COMO ME DUELE
54. Yolanda Wears Melissa’s Skin into Selena’s Hotel Room
55. Hellraiser
56. Killing Time at Karaoke
57. Her Funeral Plays on a Loop
58. Selena Dies a Third Time
59. We Begin to Slow Dance
60. There Is Only One Way Out
61. Yolanda Saldivar Orders a Stack of Pancakes
62. Last Chisme Before We Go
63. EPILOGUE
64. Yolanda and Selena Don’t Talk Anymore
65. It’s Selena’s Birthday in Salina, Kansas
66. In the Beginning
67. ALTERNATE ENDING
68. Selena Doesn’t Die
69. Selena Still Isn’t Dead
70. Selena Still Has Some Time Left
71. RESURRECTING SELENA, FEAT. TIFFANY MALLERY
72. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
73. ABOUT THE AUTHOR