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La Elegia -- an ebook novella
From BookLemur — “David Alvarez thought sagebrush stank. No matter who told him how beautiful, how fragrant they found sagebrush, he still thought it smelled. E-voc-a-tive. Evocadar. Evocative of uncleared land killed by contorted, poisonous bushes. ” With these simple lines, Scott Archer Jones puts us into Northern New Mexico, puts us into the blue-collar world of working Hispaños, puts us into the mind of a gentle man who should have lived a hundred years ago. Alvarez struggles under the weight of a murder and tries to do his back-breaking job everyday. He’s messed up from the death of his Army squad in a training accident, and redeemed by visions of the Virgin. This long short story is evocative of entrapment, and of absolution
Jupiter and Gilgamesh
Jupiter is crazy, and not only because he lives on top of a grain elevator. As a 60-year-old ad exec, he knows people are his living, but he can't bear being with more than two human beings at a time. Unfortunately, his one psychic need is for a family, but it's a little late to start one.
Additional complications trip him up—the Village is about to evict him, and he's dating a 25-year-old woman who's stomping roughshod over him. AND his best friend is Gilgamesh, a dead Sumerian king who gives bad advice.
The Big Wheel
Robko Zlata is sprinting across America, on the run with a call girl—his ex-wife—on a hot red motorcycle. Robko is a thief, and he has stolen the wrong thing, a device that can guarantee immortality. His wrathful target, a corrupt bullionaire politician, wants the world's greatest piece of technology back.
a rising tide of people swept away
A small boy flees a toxic family, all the way across the alley to Rip's Bar & Package Liquor Store and a vivid troupe of broken people in the Albuquerque Bosque. They hide him from his car-thief drunkard father, his cocaine-freak mother, and his ganged-up, abusive brother. The boy gladly trades family for a hodgepodge of drinkers and losers. But it's bad timing. A new bridge proposed across the Rio Grande will wreck the fragile ghetto. The barflies share responsibility for the child while their Bosque crumbles. They collect misery like small change and rally to keep their neighborhood alive. Will the working poor beat City Hall and keep the kid out of the system?
And Throw Away The Skins
Bec Robertson is starting over. She's broke, recovering from breast cancer, and lives in a rundown cabin in northern New Mexico. Her husband is deployed in Afghanistan as a chaplain, and can't stand to touch her. The people she meets, her villagers, are batty if not wacko, and her hawk Amelia can't keep up with the mice. She lives next door to a dubious veterans' center. As if she hasn't invented enough problems for herself, she has a love/hate connection with an unstable Marine. Being Bec is tough, but survival is in her bones - and she lives under the numinous skies of New Mexico.
The Moth
The Moth has bitten off more of East L.A. than he can chew, and is gnawed up himself by the neighborhood. On the fringes of serious crime, the Moth reveals himself as a man whose morals are largely good but whose ethics are shaky. It's a dark world where all good intentions go astray. The Moth's pawn-shop schemes and his ambition to be the local Moriarty all tumble into disarray.