Short Fiction: Where is Santiago?

Short Fiction: Where is Santiago?

 Dónde está Santiago?When Santiago left town, everyone went crazy.  The  señoritas swooned.  They pulled at their hair and tore at their dresses and ran around in a hopeless state of despair.  Fights broke out among the young men who vied against each other to become...
Lucy’s CuCu Cabana

Lucy’s CuCu Cabana

[Click on blue links for further information]   You already know that Alebrijes Make Me Happy.  All of Mexico makes me happy.  It’s a large country (760,000 square miles) but smaller than the contiguous 48 states of the USA (3 million square miles).  Thankfully...
Alebrijes Make Me Happy

Alebrijes Make Me Happy

A small child is taken to the zoo for the first time. This child may be any one of us or, to put it another way, we have been this child and have forgotten about it. In these grounds – these terrible grounds – the child sees living animals he has never...
Off With Their Heads

Off With Their Heads

UPDATE June 21:  I want to express my full support for the eloquent words of Lila Downs: “Violence provokes more violence. Why provoke with confrontation and repression? If we have the same preoccupations: better education, respect toward students, respect...