Just Passing Through explores the many ways people face lifes troubles. Though scientific ideas have forced their way into some of these stories, the focus is on the characters lives: A loving mother dictates her sons life as a despot a priest discovers he has sinned two recent widowers find their mutual attraction disturbing a watchmaker learns the exact date of his death a man sees the world collapsing and cannot decide if he is hallucinating or losing his mind; perhaps he can reverse the collapse beings from a distant planet plan to settle on earth. Several stories are nonfictional, personal memoirs.
In his earlier novel, Caf Con Leche, Jack Fernandez reported, as a newspaper item, the death of Matilde Gmez, his hero and favorite character; the reader was not shown the body. Only after publication did Fernandez discover that Matilde did not die. At that point he undertook the sequel, Viva Matilde! Viva Matilde! begins with Matilde's survival after crossing the treacherous waters of the Florida Straits. He assumes a new identity and soon finds himself enmeshed in the CIA's failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Pablo and Consuelo Iglesias, the successful Cuban-American couple, continue to grapple with repressed racial issues, as Matilde, the heroic mulatto, and his beautiful wife Zoraida again find their lives intertwined with Pablo's and Consuelo's, this time on a loom stretching between Tampa and Washington during the tumultuous 1960s. Clothed in a false identity, Matilde must navigate his way around the calculating Pablo and the deceit and infidelity of the mystical and hysterical Zoraida. In his new life he finds another woman and discovers a relative he never knew he had. The story reaches its climax in the Washington race riot of 1968. No, our great mulatto could not have perished crossing the Florida Straits, for he still had lives to live, battles to fight, and fields to conquer.
SHE WAS MESMERIZING -- SHE WAS ALSO AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL. Jason Weathers rescues an injured woman and finds himself embroiled in an enticingly bizarre encounter with alien adventurers. The enigmatic self-named Roci joins Jason's band of free-spirited mountain hikers for a mescaline drug experience, and he quickly becomes immersed in a dual adventure within his conscious and super-conscious realities. Triggered by sexual orgasm into an altered state, he mind-visits our world's ancient extraterrestrial garden colony, where embattled colonists confront a mysterious scourge of serpents. A story unfolds with provocative counterpoints between creationism and evolution as the exploration challenges Jason to solve ancient mysteries from our planet's prehistory. Under the guidance of a flamboyant patriarchal explorer, the theatrical Mega, Jason's mind is opened to a vast time and space worlds cosmology, finally coming face-to-face with the roots of evil Lucifer's rebellion against God! Can he overcome it with unconditional love? In another reality, Jason faces drug-busting park rangers, a perilous climb and an avalanche, all swirling around his erotically-charged relationship with an alien woman of stunning beauty and hypnotic charisma. The two are ultimately swept together to the edge of heroism or death on a windswept mountain precipice. At the peak, Jason's discoveries are yours in this amazing mystery tale of spiritual discoveries that stretch into God's Be Ye Perfect' mandate and ascension plan.
It is generally believed that university professors lead highly intellectual, dull lives. Without denying that, Professors And Other Misfits looks at another side of faculty existence: A newly appointed distinguished scientist uses his influence to hire a young brilliant African-American, who soon finds himself involved with a student ... Another catches a young man cheating on an exam, and sets in motion a series of events that lead to an attempted murder and an unexpected death ... A fastidious professor is shackled by his obsessive punctuality until an obese, unattractive female student leads him to unveil a devastating memory within himself ... How can a devoted scientist erase from his mind an inexplicable event that everyone witnessed, but no one else believes? ... A priest commits an unpardonable sin ... A retiree's isolation moves him into a new world with which he cannot cope.
It is generally believed that university professors lead highly intellectual, dull lives. Without denying that, Professors And Other Misfits looks at another side of faculty existence: A newly appointed distinguished scientist uses his influence to hire a young brilliant African-American, who soon finds himself involved with a student ... Another catches a young man cheating on an exam, and sets in motion a series of events that lead to an attempted murder and an unexpected death ... A fastidious professor is shackled by his obsessive punctuality until an obese, unattractive female student leads him to unveil a devastating memory within himself ... How can a devoted scientist erase from his mind an inexplicable event that everyone witnessed, but no one else believes? ... A priest commits an unpardonable sin ... A retiree's isolation moves him into a new world with which he cannot cope.
Just Passing Through explores the many ways people face lifes troubles. Though scientific ideas have forced their way into some of these stories, the focus is on the characters lives: A loving mother dictates her sons life as a despot a priest discovers he has sinned two recent widowers find their mutual attraction disturbing a watchmaker learns the exact date of his death a man sees the world collapsing and cannot decide if he is hallucinating or losing his mind; perhaps he can reverse the collapse beings from a distant planet plan to settle on earth. Several stories are nonfictional, personal memoirs.
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