The Flying Flexy Brothers By Fernando Garcia Davila “Be careful over the summer, I want to see every one of you back here next September,” warned Sister Catherine, our sixth grade teacher. We had tragically lost our classmate Phillip in a caving accident. “Let’s say our parting prayer.” Like programmed robots we stood and
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Doorway By Fernando Garcia He walked through the kitchen door. He was happy, his small business was doing well; his four children were well behaved. All the work he and his wife had put into the old property they had purchased ten years before had paid off handsomely. He was respected professionally and on
You Can Warm Your Socks in the Oven—But That Don’t Make’um Biscuits By Fernando Garcia My mom was a genius when it came to finding simple solutions for difficult problems. Raised on a meager farm in Mexico one learned to be resourceful. She used to open the oven door to warm her kitchen on
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An Unexpected Visitor By Fernando Garcia It was near my mother’s end. A hospital bed was set up in her living room. We got the news of ma’s pancreatic cancer three months before. My mother, who had feared death more than anything, cancer, we got the news in the doctor’s office, Ma was 84
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