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The House Novella Part 4 - Silver Goblet and the Little Park
Chapter 9 The Silver Goblet Spring came, and with it the daily sameness. It was the year 1983, and Fidel Castro had awoken in a particular happy mood, one cool April morning. It was thanks to his general good disposition that the rationing got a little bit loose. The Cubans were finally allowed to fatten a little. The market was flooded with chicken. Irina was the first to go to the chicken lines. After getting a couple of chickens. While there, she negotiated with a farmer for the purchase of one little piglet. She had the intentioned of fattening it....
The House Novella Part 3 - Silver Eye, Ceiba, and Foreign Buyers
Chapter 6 Silver Eye A week passed uneventfully. Irina had seen the strange white shade a couple of times. For some reason, it made appearance a lot more in her room. Since she believed in Santeria and all that type of nonsense, she naturally assumed it was the ghost of Horacio. She did an exorcism of the fellow using a fish, and some grasses. When she was done, she placed the spell components in a bag, and left it in a street that had four corners. When she came to the corner, she noted other suspicious looking bags. She turned...
The House Novella Part 2 - Delicia and Isabel la Catolica
Chapter 4 Delicia After this single unfortunate night in La Palma, the adults developed an aversion for that house and the mosquitoes. The most common mosquito found in Cuba is the Aedes Aegypti. Before Carlos J. Finlay, this mosquito was making quite the dent on the Cuban population through the spread of the yellow fever. According to Cuban history, the guy created a vaccine to threat the virus. Yellow fever is no longer a problem for the Cubans. It might be a problem for outsiders who are not vaccinated, or who do not descend from someone who has resistance to...
La Casa or The House Part 1 - The House, the Mason Family and La Palma
Introduction The House was first conceived on sunny afternoon in the pool of my house. At first, I was trying to do a horror book. After writing a couple of chapters, I realized that writing horror wasn’t my forte. This is not to say that there isn’t a scary element to the book. For me, the most frightening element is living in my house in Cuba. Most of my memories there are pretty terrible, with the blackouts, the flying roaches, the ghosts and we were robbed twice after my dad died. As far as the main setting, the book takes...
Complete Short Stories Book Index
This is a collection of all my published short stories up to date. The index is designed to help you reach the blog segments that feature my short stories easier. If you like what you read, you can feed this writer by getting a print version of my short story books. The Kindle book also works as far as feeding the Artsy Sister. The short stories are based on dreams and nightmares I had over the years. I was able to string together the bizarre images into little short stories. Short Stories: The Ballad of Exada and other stories: Blanco,...