"Xavi" by Loretta Velle. Loretta's story is a colorful and touching exploration of how we remember the dead. Loretta is a fiction writer from the southern tip of Texas. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where she recently earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Oregon State University. She now works at OSU as a full-time writing instructor. Music by Jonas Myers. Jonas is a musician, writer, and recent graduate of the MFA program in fiction from Oregon State University. He is based in Port Townsend, Washington.