He wants to say something clever. He’s amazed by how smooth American men can come across. No matter how much American television he watches, he doesn’t think he could ever pull it off. ‘Busy day today?’ he asks Carmen. ‘Quiet I hope. How about you?’ ‘Same as ever you know. Nothing ever happening here.’ Raul is babbling and he knows it. Carmen’s face softens as he continues to rapidly release phrases of no substance. Sounds to...
The plan involves Jose and Raul buying a second bodega somewhere downtown to keep the cash flowing back home where their parents and six younger brothers and sisters depend on it. ‘All I said is that she’s nice bro,’ says Raul admiring city lights flickering under a hazy blanket of night sky. ‘She’s a nice girl.’ Carmen loves to smoke although cigarettes make her sick. She prefers Garcia Vega Corona cigars on a budget, and whatever...
The last serialized fiction set that I wrote received much love from many. I started to contemplate setting up an area on my page to accommodate a rolling serialized section... then my brains started to complain. So let's have another play and worry about that later... Serialized Piece #2... Carmen feels closer to the two Mexican brothers that own her local bodega than anyone else. Every morning at exactly 6.30a she is eagerly greeted by either...
It's been an intense 24 hours my beloved cult members. After hyperventilating yesterday morning at the notion of being forced back into the zone of sell-out-dom to afford things like food and shelter... I hard hit the anthology. The day was spent editing and formating, PDFing and Microsoft Wording... Furthermore, I snapped out of the idea of falling back into a routine that I hate in a city I'm trying to get out of just to make things easy....
I don't think it's fair that many publications won't accept submissions shared on my blog because they reckon they've been published. Writing is not only my passion, skill, art, and expression... it's my release. Prior to kicking off mission 'share words with the world' back in September, I suppose I never really considered any of the publisher rules because I wasn't submitting. Anyone that practices something daily the way I do is going to get...