Product Description
Humor? Satire? Vegetable?
Here are 19 fun stories with a Southwestern/Hispanic edge. The stories begin on the high seas with Christopher Columbus' true thoughts on his first voyage and end in space with the confrontation between the star vessel Vagacielos and a pinata-shaped space creature. In between are Pancho Villa's experiments in weather forecasting, Billy the Kid's unexpected visitation by La Llorona on the night of his death, the strange comic book character Gila Monster Man, the chronicle of Captain Miguel Casaba inside the human body, and the heretofore unknown dealings of the first Frankenstein of the Americas.
Jokes, puns, slapstick, satire, and parody abound in TALES OF DELIGHT AND SHAME, and there's enough Good Cheer to choke a grumpy horse. And when you get right down to it, isn't that all you really want?
Table of Contents:
FROM THE SECOND LOG OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
THOSE IMAGINATIVE MEN ON HORSEBACK
LA LLORONA AND THE KID
THE MAN WHO HATED EDISON
POOR PANCHO’S ALMANACK
THE CLAMS ARE COMING!
RELEVANT DICHOS FOR THE AGES
MUZAK IN TAOS
THE CARNIVOROUS CHILDREN OF SÁNCHEZ
A SELF-ASSASSINATION
BURNT LEAVES
FRANKENSTEIN OF THE AMERICAS
FANTASTIC VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PANCREAS
GILA MONSTER MAN TO THE RESCUE
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF
THE PECOS VALLEY WERECHICKEN
ASTRONAUT
THE FINAL FRONTERA
Here are 19 fun stories with a Southwestern/Hispanic edge. The stories begin on the high seas with Christopher Columbus' true thoughts on his first voyage and end in space with the confrontation between the star vessel Vagacielos and a pinata-shaped space creature. In between are Pancho Villa's experiments in weather forecasting, Billy the Kid's unexpected visitation by La Llorona on the night of his death, the strange comic book character Gila Monster Man, the chronicle of Captain Miguel Casaba inside the human body, and the heretofore unknown dealings of the first Frankenstein of the Americas.
Jokes, puns, slapstick, satire, and parody abound in TALES OF DELIGHT AND SHAME, and there's enough Good Cheer to choke a grumpy horse. And when you get right down to it, isn't that all you really want?
Table of Contents:
FROM THE SECOND LOG OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
THOSE IMAGINATIVE MEN ON HORSEBACK
LA LLORONA AND THE KID
THE MAN WHO HATED EDISON
POOR PANCHO’S ALMANACK
THE CLAMS ARE COMING!
RELEVANT DICHOS FOR THE AGES
MUZAK IN TAOS
THE CARNIVOROUS CHILDREN OF SÁNCHEZ
A SELF-ASSASSINATION
BURNT LEAVES
FRANKENSTEIN OF THE AMERICAS
FANTASTIC VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PANCREAS
GILA MONSTER MAN TO THE RESCUE
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF
THE PECOS VALLEY WERECHICKEN
ASTRONAUT
THE FINAL FRONTERA
