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Scott Russell Duncan

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Old California Strikes Back

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Upcoming through FlowerSong Press 2023

Old California Strikes Back  is a modern Ramona Diary, the record tourists kept of the sites of Old California and the book Ramona and Hollywood movies that renamed and transformed them. A mix of fantasy and memoir, the author SRD’s Ramona Diary tour turns surreal as he enters the myths of the Californios with the talking head of the Chicano folk hero Joaquin Murrieta.

​They race a gringo, self-styled Zorro, to get the spurious “Jewels of Ramona” while the media is convinced SRD and Joaquin are the serial killer dubbed Two Heads. Ultimately, SRD records his truth and recreates a dream where he may exist.
Check out chapters published online:
​"The Head Joaquin" at Label Me Latina/o
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"M'ijo Don't Dance With No White Devil" at Pithead Chapel
"Wrath of Mom" at Diagram
"My Heart is Bathed in Chilis" at Somos enescrito 
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