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Animal Husbandry

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Animal Husbandry

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Taylor Garcia

Novelist | Short Story Writer | Columnist

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 in numerous journals, and is a weekly columnist at the Good Men Project.

In a past life, García was a features and sports reporter at The Santa Fe New Mexican, and a political news correspondent at the Talk Radio News Service in Washington, D. C.He holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University Oregon. García is a multi-generational Neomexicano originally from Santa Fé, New Mexico now living in Southern California with his family.

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Neo Mexicanisms

The Admiral

Taylor García
Fiction

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 […]

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Endurance

Taylor García
Poem

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 […]

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The Race to Find Presidential DNA

Taylor García
Fiction | Humor

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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Açaí Lifestyle Risk Factors Ranked

Taylor García
Humor | List

Stains

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Least Desired Genetic Markers To Test Positive for on 23andMe

Taylor García
Humor | List

Asparagus Odor Detection Back Hair Bald Spot Bitter Taste Perception Male Hair Loss Unibrow Widow’s Peak

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When Your Wife Becomes a Mother

Taylor García
Humor | Poem

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 […]

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My Visit with the Wise One

Taylor García
Fiction | Humor

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 […]

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Top 10 Baby Girl Names for 2017: Presidential Edition

Taylor García
Humor | List

10. McKinley 9. Madison 8. Taylor 7. Tyler 6. Kennedy 5. Carter 4. Grant 3. Reagan 2. Nixon 1. Mar-A-Lago

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Animal Husbandry

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A NOVEL
By Taylor García

SLIP SOUL

Tonight, I cannot sleep.

Around me, is a sea of men—some sitting up, others laying, talking, whispering, laughing, snoring—each of us floating on a cot, two feet apart from each other, enclosed by a chain-linked fence. My slow breathing won’t calm me, won’t trick me into sleep and off to the world of dreams where I might find Joanne…

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SLIP SOUL

Tonight, I cannot sleep.

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A NOVEL
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SLIP SOUL

Tonight, I cannot sleep.

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barnes and noble

A NOVEL
By Taylor García

SLIP SOUL

Tonight, I cannot sleep.

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Taylor Garcia

Novelist | Short Story Writer | Columnist

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Taylor Garcia’s stories are tough and tender-hearted, brief and astonishing dramas that show us what we know to be true: that our families are designed to drive us crazy, but also to bring us deeper into ourselves. I loved these stories.

Steve Almond

Author of All the Secrets of the World, the national best seller Candyfreak, and Bad Stories

The stories in Functional Families are sharp, surprising glimpses of those moments of life when the cracks start to show, when a border is crossed, when it’s clear things will never be the same. Taylor Garcia writes with great heart and humor and I gobbled up his wonderful collection.