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Will the Real Melinda Palacio Please Stand?
Melinda Palacio???With the new year comes a new type of identity nightmare thanks to the DMV's new Real ID rules. I spent Tuesday morning getting a real ID or Real Drivers License at the suggestion of...
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"Buridan's Ass" a short story by Daniel A. Olivas
Carlos stood, his back to the bay window, arms crossed, breath held still. “This is fucked,” he said. “Simply and purely fucked.”“Get a hold of yourself, mi amor,” said Gabriela. She sat in the...
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Xmas Memories: 2016 in 2019
The column below ran December 20, 2016. The writer is a different fellow today, the same memories carry new weights. My wife and I live with Alzheimer's Dementia. We live with memory and treasure what...
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New Books by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy
Abuelita's Secret Written by Alma Flor Ada Illustrated by Jacobo Muñiz *Hardcover: 32 pages*Publisher: Reycraft Books *Language: English*ISBN-10: 1478868015*ISBN-13: 978-1478868019A boy is living with...
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Chicanonautica: A Scene From My Novel-In-Progress
by Ernest HoganJust in case you were curious about the novel-in-progress I keep talking about—it's called Zyx; Or, Bring Me the Brain of Victor Theremin—here's a chapter:"You dumb fucking white man!...
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Season's Greetings - or - the Lo-Riters Car Club Annual Christmas Tree Hunt
The next time I post for La Bloga the holidays will have come and gone. The year 2020 will be a reality, the seasons will have changed, and we will enjoy a few minutes more of daylight each day. Most...
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She's baaaaack .....
(Me, pondering the Great American Novel)Well, boys and girls, I'm back at La Bloga. And frankly, it isn't because I have a burning desire to write. The opposite, really. It's been about six or seven...
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The End of WAR, Fights, Chingasos, Blows, Catos Trancasos by antoniosolisgomez 2019Our world has been dominated by masculine energy for the past few thousands years, an age characterized by survival...
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Para cerrar el 2019 poesía en Casa del Lago UV por Xánath Caraza
Para cerrar el 2019 poesía en Casa del Lago UVpor Xánath CarazaEl miércoles pasado, el 18 de diciembre, Casa del Lago UV abrió sus puertas a una velada poética para cerrar las actividades de 2019....
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2019 Santa's Last Chance
Michael SedanoWhat a difference a decade makes. This is my 2010 Christmas Letter to Santa, slightly updated. The pendejo addressed in the letter looks like a saint in comparison to the present...
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Tamalitos
Review by Ariadna SánchezHappy Holidays! Christmas is a time to celebrate with family and friends surrounded by the spirit of love, peace and happiness. Christmas is an occasion filled with hope, good...
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An After Christmas Day Story
by Daniel Cano A bar scene, not unlike the Lucky-U The story made its way around town for a number of years but passed-away...
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New Christmas traditions and Ghostly visitations
Melinda PalacioI later added photos to the cards.Caroling at Jackson SquareLast Sunday, I participated in the annual Christmas caroling at Jackson Square in New Orleans, a tradition that’s been going...
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“Painting” a short story by Daniel A. Olivas
That pinche Alejandro…makes me take my pinche clothes off to paint me, my picture, me in the nude because he says mi cielo that is how your soul comes out to touch me, fill me up, only with your naked...
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A dozen characters in search of a peculiar son
Review: Sergio Troncoso. A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781947627338Michael Sedano13 stories make up the two-hundred pages of Sergio Troncoso’s A Peculiar...
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Collecíon de Nacimientos by AntonioSolisGomez
Adriana Cordova was one of my classmates at the University of Arizona in the mid 1970’s and later she became a principal for the Tucson Unified School District. She was Catholic and having participated...
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Chicanonautica: Cuca, the Monsters of Aztlán, and Me
by Ernest HoganThough it looks like 2020 is going to be an another pendejada of a year, but it’s starting off in a good way for me. I’ve got a new story out! Which is the sort of thing I live for.It’s...
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Papel Chicano Dos
Northern Colorado, which means north of Denver, is still big sky country. Farms and rolling hills take up whatever space is left along the rapidly developing I-25 corridor, but in a few years (months?)...
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Entrevista a Justine Temeyissa por Xánath Caraza
Entrevista a Justine Temeyissa por Xánath Caraza¿Quién es Justine Temeyissa?Yo soy camerunesa que nació el 04 de julio de 1991 en Guider, ciudad del Norte de Camerún. Guider está cerca del Chad y...
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