Rico Wallace, Author at El Ojo del Lago

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When Richie came to town, beauty parlors filled up and the fashion shops had big sales. It was a boom, all savings shook loose. He came down the road, incognito, on his brown mule. He wore a large drooping gray mustache and a big sombrero. A man in a beat-up truck stopped him. “Hey,” he […]

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The Window

It happened February 18th after coming off the graveyard shift, muscling freight, outside, all night, on the dock. Ragged, cold, and tired, Mr. Z unlocked the door to a quiet home and sat at the kitchen table for a drink. He looked out the window at the freshly fallen snow. “It looks nice, before the