Taylor
Garcia

Functional Families

Short Story collection

Margaret assures herself: leaving Mom here, at an OXXO convenience store at Benito Juárez and Constitución, a few miles deep into Tijuana, is just like Mom used to do to her as a little girl.

From “Bat Out Of Hell”

  

SLIP SOUL

novel

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…

Taylor García is the author of the novel, Slip Soul (Touchpoint Press, 2021), and the short story collection, Functional Families (Unsolicited Press, 2021), nominated for the 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award. García is a weekly columnist at the Good Men Project. writing about men’s issues, fatherhood, and sociopolitical topics. A former reporter and political correspondent, García 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.