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Creating A Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World with Taylor García We are all born into a Grand New World. It’s called our family. But then, over time, we must leave, and find our own new world. Taylor encourages writers to investigate the journey from old world to new world, and how, and why, it is important to incorporate into their work. As writers, it seems our parents (read: our moms) are our biggest fans. They’re the ones that encourage us to keep at our little “hobby”. But what happens when our own loved ones make it into our pages? […]
Taylor García & friends headline Poets Underground Open Mic
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August 1, 2024 / Poets Underground @ Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center Mil gracias a @poets_underground_ for an AMAZING night of poetry, spoken word, music, and storytelling! Proud to have shared the stage with Emily Muschenetz @palmfrondzoo and Joy Saler Drees as headliners for the evening, however, the open mic talent was the real real. OMG, the voices, energy, and love in the room that night was palpable! 🤎 Thank you again a thousand times to Sunny and Anthony for your love and for creating such a heartfelt space. 🫶 Huge thanks to @emilyjontobias for all your work to […]
SLIP SOUL Launch Party
Taylor García
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Highlights from Taylor García’s SLIP SOUL novel launch party on October 24, 2021 at Sadie’s of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
LITerary Podcast, Episode 58, featuring Taylor García
Taylor García
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From LITerally Podcast Ep. 58 – Taylor Garcia, “Functional Families” Audio version We talked about a lot more than writing in this episode with author Taylor Garcia. We jumped into everything writers think about when writing that readers probably never know! Writing isn’t just putting words on paper. It’s a life. We delve into all of this. Taylor Garcia: https://orbitalyarn.wordpress.com/ Functional Families on Amazon “Taylor García is the author of the novel, Slip Soul (Touchpoint Press, 2021), and the short story collection, Functional Families (Unsolicited Press, 2021). In addition to his books, García has published several short stories and essays […]
Creating A Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World with Taylor García
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The Characters from SLIP SOUL (by Artflow.ai)
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My big brother and el chingón de los chingónes, Rodolfo Rivera (@capicuaman) is always showing me the latest in technology. He was, in fact, the one who suggested I join Twitter so long ago. Recently, he introduced me to ArtFlow.AI, a site which generates an avatar based on descriptions entered into the platform by users. Type in “New Mexican brujo,” or “Spanish sorcerer, or “Warrior elf” and the service will produce a stunning and mystical face just for you. I entered “Emo Dora the Explorer” and when I saw a grown up Dora, sullen with dark makeup, I was truly […]
slip soul – Best 2021 fiction book
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Emigrating from Mexico to San Diego, sixty-something Osvaldo Reyes intends to find his first love, Joanne Watson, a young writer he met over thirty years ago when she toured his hometown of Oaxaca City. But when Osvaldo’s employer in the United States shuts down due to protests, the clock starts ticking on his visa. He finds work at a local fish taco shop to buy more time in the US, but doesn’t know his sweet co-worker, a Mexican-American girl, is an ICE agent in disguise. Osvaldo ends up in an immigrant detention center where he meets Marcos Gomez, a young […]
The Admiral
December 24, 1492 Enrique Navarro Lovato shared a tiny cabin below the bow with Juan Carlos Gutierrez Romero. Each boy slept on a three-plank bunk, Enrique’s closer to the floor because he was the younger of the two, and because, according to Juan Carlos, Juan Carlos was part Basque, who were superior sailors, which is why the Admiral wanted him on the higher bunk. This was pure nonsense and Enrique taunted Juan Carlos relentlessly that he could never prove he was Basque, and why would he want to claim that heritage anyway, those arrogant heathens. Juan Carlos did little on […]
Earthquick
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This one lasted At least five minutes And though we are not from there We appeared to be in South America A capital in the mountains High rises reaching up Out of the valleys We were not frightened: Our parents had perished already But we still held on, Waited for the shaking to stop However, this was less a shake And more a bounce Reciprocation The building itself An elevator, like the gantry We rode to numb our pain with Thrills That all this happened in the South America of my dreams Tells me somewhere down there […]
Endurance
The men appear to be outliving the women. They show up now At the funerals With their so-called Friends. Companions. How quick to judge Are the youngest And supposed Most pious. Let her soul rest, They say. It’s only been Six months, They say. He’s never been alone, The others say. He’ll die as soon As she did, Without someone To talk to, They say. Would you? Would you dry up Out of loneliness? Swallowed up by Solitude? Not everyone. Not those who’ve Learned to subsist On crumbs. Not even a scrap She received from him All those years in […]
The Race to Find Presidential DNA
While Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards unwittingly cast her as a potential 2020 presidential candidate, she quickly responded to InStyle magazine by saying, “I don’t have the DNA for it.” So what have the leaders in home genetic testing done? Begun a frenzied search for presidential DNA. Geneticists at companies like 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and the National Geographic Genographic Project are racing to identify the specific genetic markers for what it takes to president of the United States of America. For a high-dollar fee, plus a vial of spit, these companies can deliver a person’s genetic makeup, […]
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When Your Wife Becomes a Mother
When your wife becomes a mother, She will not rest until the decorations are up Or taken down, for that matter. Before all this, Holidays weren’t celebrations The way they are now. Before, she only photographed Things like shadows of ducks on ponds, And rhododendrons, and the dog in a necktie. A lot, you once thought. But boy, oh boy, you had no idea how many Moments she could capture with that phone. Thousands in the first year of life. When your wife becomes a mother, You enter into a lifelong love triangle, Or quadrangle, or trapezoid, or whatever the […]
My Visit with the Wise One
Or, When Your Dreams Tell You You Everything Before I met the Wise One, I joined a group of anglers in the night at an old pier, the concrete docks withered by the elements. That night, though winter, felt like any ocean side night: damp, thick, and invigorating. The four of us cast our reels into the sea with the synchrony of familiar co-workers, in fact, that’s what we all were, why we were joined that night—to work on our fishing skills. I was the least competent of all, and I knew this going in, but my form wasn’t too […]
Top 10 Baby Girl Names for 2017: Presidential Edition
10. McKinley 9. Madison 8. Taylor 7. Tyler 6. Kennedy 5. Carter 4. Grant 3. Reagan 2. Nixon 1. Mar-A-Lago
For Years I Tried To Read Don Quixote
For years, I tried to read Don Quixote, Revering the Spaniard writer in me, Skimming a thin abridged edition, Sophomoric in World History. Later, greater windmills. Exotic becomes quixotic. The bookmark stops. Again. Dare you go on, Wannabe pícaro? No. Gracias. We underdogs Know the ending anyway, Some will never get their day.
Trump Campaign Pre-Approved Alternatives to “Locker Room Banter”
Tee box talk Spa convo Limo gossip Humidor chat C-suite speak Green Room gab Yacht joshing Casino jabber Helicopter prattle
People Familiar With The Matter
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For Years I Tried To Become A Buddhist
For years I tried to become a Buddhist Fascinated with its harsh simplicity, How it all points back to one. Such is the way, The path to enlightenment That the young rich boy embarked upon, Shunning his worldly possessions for want of nothing. Even the river, The water, The rocks, All metaphor, Not real. Really. Nirvana is not a place. It’s more a band, Defiling their instrument, In angst. Their song wails the ultimate irony: That one cannot have and want at the same time. That one cannot wear flannel and smell of teen spirit. It’s one or the other, […]
For Years I Tried To Start Smoking
For years I tried to start smoking, scurrying out before theme parties: Bad Taste Ball, Red Light, Pajammy Jam—to pick up Pall Malls, Only to find the shreds of tobacco slipping past my lips. Tonight, some fifteen years later, I rushed out for a walk, alone, Minus wife, kids, mother-in-law, Left a flat cauldron of beef stew to roast in the oven for an hour. I cook now. I follow recipes. I make up my own. “Be back,” I said. Like those fathers you hear about that say, “Be back. Just going out to pick up some smokes,” and then […]
Top 20 Genderfluid / PC Celebrity Baby Names For 2016
20. Prophet 19. Farcy 18. Eyesys 17. Cray 16. Kobalt 15. Siry 14. Janeiro 13. Onovan 12. Moji 11. Tag 10. Bernie 9. Trending 8. Pluto 7. Tombrady 6. Sheeran 5. Bey 4. Jenner 3. Pat 2. X-Pro II 1. One
Pilgrims
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Toddy hurled the dice at his sister Maggie the very instant their father Elmer opened the door to let the motel housekeeper in. Maggie screamed, boomeranging the Wa-Hoo game board at Toddy in retaliation, marbles flying in all directions. Toddy ducked and laughed. The housekeeper peeked over Elmer, who tried his best Bosnian on the woman: “The sheets are dirty. Stains.” The maid spoke back to him in clipped words, still distracted by the ruckus. “Kids.” Elmer shrugged. The housekeeper went to English. “Our rooms are clean.” “I don’t normally complain about things like this, but please look at these […]
Anthropocene
Do your push ups in the sun, little one. Still spastic, plastic, After all these millennia. We rule the school now! Yet, We’re as big as we’ll ever be. You still have a chance, to dance To pulverize our little bones In your jaws of life.
Of the Taco: An Open Letter to Taco Bell’s new sauces
Dear Taco Bell, There are few places a part-time vegetarian of Hispanic origin can get Mexican-type food quickly. McDonald’s rolled out a chicken wrap in a tortilla, but that, of course, contained meat. Burger King, Wendy’s, and Arby’s? Not a single item that appeals to the brown in me. Now, Carl’s Jr I have to say is pretty clever with their sub-restaurant, the Green Burrito. I appreciate their effort to make a brand around ethnic food in a burger joint, but the words green and burrito just don’t go together. Jack in the Box has tried with their deep fried […]
Literary Magazines That Never Were
A collection of literary magazine’s I’ve invented in my head…. Curio Algorithm The Hidalgo Review Yonderlandia Stopped Clock Medusa’s Mirror The Local Body of Water Press White People Problems
Mall Sweats
The final fleeting days, of the dying year, most long for sweatpants. Preserve comfort. Hide side fat. Fashion. At the mall, in this agonizing transition, wear leather ones. They have them now. They foster tranquility and couture. They show you haven’t given up on it all. Not yet.
Side Fat
I’m drawing blank. I’m not motivated or excited to do this. I’m tired. I should be doing other work. The work that pays the bills. I’m thinking of other things. I’m not focused. I’m out of fresh ideas. All the good ideas have been taken. I sometimes have no faith in myself, my writing. I’m sad. I’m fat. Just kidding about the last two. Although I should be a little happier, it being a Friday. And I am kind of fat. More like skinny fat. Which is kind of gross because you’re skinny, but then you’re fat. More like hanging […]
False Starts
We’ve all been there: staring at a blank canvas, that perfect first line taunting you. Sometimes the entire story spills into your head. You see it all play out before you. It’s going to be marvelous. Then the words come. And this is what you get. False starts. Doomed beginnings. ========================= Traces of fat around his cheeks and jawbone had layered outward in the past few years, swallowing the distinct features of his once angular face. When Samantha didn’t recognize him, he said, “Hey, I’ve been hungry, okay?” ======================== There was a huge difference between “Could you sweep out […]
2015 Top Baby Names (Girls)
Baby name trend expert Nameberry* and the efficient record-keeping, lovable government office the U.S. Census* have released a rare preview of the top baby girl names for 2015. Names based on nouns, adjectives, or poorly crafted adverbs: 1. Birmingham 2. Talbot 3. Roget 4. Coriander 5. Story 6. Peril 7. Bevel 8. South 9. Wildly 10. Sable Male names soon to be appropriated for baby girls: 1. Cooper 2. Alvin 3. Commodore 4. Scott 5. Trevor 6. Lloyd 7. David 8. Carl 9. George 10. Frank * Nameberry and the U.S. Census did not release these names. Purely […]
Adventures / Failures in Pop Fiction ~or~ It’s all been done before
-witch / wizard school -vampire romance -vampire school – witch / wizard romance – zombie apocalypse -nuclear apocalypse -asteroid apocalypse -star-crossed lovers -feuding family -alien invasion -elf kingdom -mythical animals -time travel -lonely cowboy -traveling girl -cowboys vs. aliens -unlikely romance -talking animals -talking fruit and vegetables -freak weather -weather involving food -toys come to life -insect adventures -dead or dying planet Earth
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