Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Also by Melissa Lozada-Oliva Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Cast of Characters Part I: Como La Flor, Tanto Amor

Dreaming of You I’m So Lonely I Grow a New Hymen My Sisters and I Would Watch the Selena Movie 6'5" Looking for Something Casual that Has the Potential to Be Something More ;) I Watch Selena’s Open-Casket Funeral Just to Make Things Clear, I Am Not a Haunted Person What If Selena Taught Me How to Fake an Orgasm El Chico del Apartamento 512 Karaoke Interlude Crush Sonnets I’m Not a Virgin But The Future Is Lodged Inside of the Female Resurrecting Selena I’m Not Sure What to Do with Her, Exactly El Chisme According to Others: Selena at the Halloween Party

Part II: Me Marcho Hoy

Selena and Me Selena on the Train Hi, Uh, Hi, Hello, You’ve Reached Melissa Selena and You I Take Selena to a Poetry Reading In the Middle of My Poem A Star Is Born Again Selena Asks for Directions I Try to Go On with My Life I Will Name It She Who’s That Girl? Mami Calls Me to Tell Me She Had a Dream If You Could Give It a Name, Who Would She Be? Papi Calls Me Dear Ms. Melissa Lozada-Oliva Abraham Quintanilla is Out for My Blood Yolanda Saldivar Gets Away With It In Which I Answer All of the Questions from My Imaginary and Very Important Interview of the Future El Chisme According to Others: Yolanda at the Gay Bar

Part III: Yo Se Perder

Yolanda Tells Me Yolanda Tells Me What Happened that Night March 31, 1995 My Lover Shows Me His Gun Collection Remember that Yolanda Was a Little Girl Once What If Reclaimed the Woman Will We Ever Stop Crying About the Dead Star Dead Celebrity Prom You and Me Don’t Talk Anymore Poem for Fucking a Fish I Made You a Playlist to Get the Real You Back Even Though Real You Doesn’t Listen to the Lyrics We Cry About It Together Yolanda Leaves a Note El Chisme According to Others: Where Is Selena?

Part IV: Como Me Duele

Yolanda Wears Melissa’s Skin into Selena’s Hotel Room Hellraiser Killing Time at Karaoke Her Funeral Plays on a Loop Selena Dies a Third Time We Begin to Slow Dance There Is Only One Way Out Yolanda Saldivar Orders a Stack of Pancakes Last Chisme Before We Go

Epilogue

Yolanda and Selena Don’t Talk Anymore It’s Selena’s Birthday in Salina, Kansas In the Beginning

Alternate Ending

Selena Doesn’t Die Selena Still Isn’t Dead Selena Still Has Some Time Left

Resurrecting Selena, Feat. Tiffany Mallery Acknowledgments About the Author