The Ramona Diary of SRD
Novel
I got kicked out of the house in High School in Ramona, California and got sent to live with my uncle Billy Bob in Dallas, Texas, a culture shock of Anglo Texanism to be sure. I always dreamed about going back to SoCal where I felt I belonged and connected more with my mother's side. My grandmother's almost last words to me were about staying Mexican American. She would take me to the Missions where our Indigenous and "Spanish" ancestors lived and died, tell me to never let the gringos call you an immigrant, they are. Our family history is about the invasion and the dregs of the ranch land we tried to hold on to, to blocking our acknowledgement of our native blood. Our story and California's story was taken away and told as hype around the novel Ramona.
The Ramona Diary of SRD is about going back and reclaiming the story.
The Ramona Diary of SRD is about going back and reclaiming the story.
Check out chapters published online:
"The Head Joaquin" at Label Me Latina/o
"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
"The Head Joaquin" at Label Me Latina/o
"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
Mexpocalyptic Tales.
Short story collection
Mexpocalyptic Tales is a dangerous speculative experiment anticipating and reveling in the Mexpocalypse, the nuclear blast of Xicano formation and ascendancy. The collection offers tales of a young vato who wakes up with the gringo condition and, in another, a nearly perfect person finds out what’s been growing in his friend’s back yard. More stories detail the two halves of a half-bred pulling away and contending with one another, the impossibility of a Mexican American Psycho who bursts through the story and claws at your face, a “You” who inherits a world altering button that brings it closer to his rainbow hair and herky-jerky time skips, and an old folks home that welcomes fresh Mexican meat. In the titular story, the author seeks a new Xicano tale that takes two, that nukes old tales and allows for new beings to emerge, active, seen, glowing and Mexpocalyptic.
Check out published chapters:
"Wake Up Gringo" The Ghost Story 2021.
"Mexican American Psycho is in Your Dreams" Solstice Magazine 2019.
"Wake Up Gringo" The Ghost Story 2021.
"Mexican American Psycho is in Your Dreams" Solstice Magazine 2019.
Why Me? Myths About Myself
Memoir and myths combine to form the tales that we live. The English language stories are accompanied by Spanish translation by Carlota Caulfield.