The Alamo Tree is the first episode of a new television series scripted by Ernest Brawley and based on his novel of the same name…
Eduardo Dawson had thought the state of Sonora, Mexico would be hot and dry, but the Sierra Madre was not like that at all. …
My mother was delighted with me, by all accounts. Not only was I large and healthy, but I looked nothing like her ex-boyfriend, my…
With him for a sire and her for a dam. What should I be but just what I am? Edna St. Vincent Millay,…
After forty-seven Search & Destroy missions, fifteen Body Counts and one unrestful R & R, after a year-long contribution to the pacification of the…
Mexico City, 1882 The specter that sent twenty-year-old Edmundo Dawson running from the city of his birth was an enormous, pale-eyed, raven-haired Mexican woman…
In 1975, the year of New York City’s nadir, its lowest point in history, beautiful SHELLEY STEIN (33) returns to restart her life as…
We are minor in everything but our passions. Elizabeth Bowen, 1938 Back in the Twentieth Century, near the village of Campello, in the…
The setting is Laos, during the CIA’s illegal and extraordinarily violent “secret war” of the early 1970’s. The plot revolves around a CIA special…
FADE IN: EXT. DESERT MILITARY BASE – BINOCULAR VIEW – NIGHT A small defensive fortification. Barracks. Bunkers. A perimeter berm. Rolled concertina wire. American…
I’d thought Central America would be hot and tropical, but Guatemala was not like that at all. It was cool and almost alpine, with…
