Big Men (X)

<= One day, as we’re baking in our cells, Silvio does the unexpected and asks me a question. “Why were you going to Esmeralda?” I am laying on my back …

Big Men (8)

<=   I had spoken with command in my voice to a Senor of a noble house. Me, a potter’s son. People have been whipped and jailed for less, but …

Big Men (7)

<=   “Mizumaru, no!” the woman screams. “Men, take him down,” Zapata commands. “Papi!” the girl with the golden eyes screams. I watch the scene unfold as if I am …

Big Men (6)

<=   My eyes are open, have been for some time, but only now do I realize that I am awake. Men, women, familias are snoring all around me. I …

Big Men (V)

<=   While we wait for the crowd to thread through intersecting roads, I see a man sitting on a rug threatening to eat a glass bulb. It is a …

Big Men (4)

<=   It takes over two months to get to Sanhles. Our journey is punishing; over land, through desert, round the Gulf of Meycali past the fishing towns, avoiding the …

Big Men (3)

<=   “I have no weapon,” I say, kicking myself when I realize I shouldn’t have said that. He has what looks like a hunting bow, turned on its side …

Big Men (2)

<=   The denial is first. I can’t possibly be lost. This has to be a dream. Just over that hill is a camp, a road, a caravan train. Something. …

Big Men (1)

Do you want to hear a story? Then come, sit, make yourself warm and I will tell you the one I know best. Sear Rodrigo called for me in the …

Not Your Granddaddy’s Tall Tales: Davy Crockett

I love Tall Tales. They’re like the comic books that people told to each other around the campfire when they got tired of listening to that one ghost story about …