Borderland Mysteries
Enter the world of the Borderlands, between El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and Boca Chica, where U.S. Marshal Gabriella Zamora and her special team operate. Experience this area that is difficult to understand…an area that is the most demonized place in the United States and the most loved by the people who live there. Experience the area through the voices of the people and understand what they know already, the magic of the natural world that defies polarizing politics and misunderstood immigration patterns. Experience La Frontier through their eyes.
HEARTBEATS OF THE BORDERLAND
Heartbeats of the Borderland, an anthology of characters and voices from La Frontiera. Available from Suncoast Publishing in October 2024.
Heartbeats of the Borderland is a collection of fiction short stories grounded in La Frontera, an economically and culturally significant area along the southern Texas border which does not deserve to be demonized, fenced, and brutalized by politically ignorant authorities of both political parties.
The short stories are as rich and diverse as people, places, and wildlife on the border along the Rio Grande. Now is the time to listen to the voices of the South Texas Borderland:
Salvador de la Frontera is a gay U.S. Border Patrolman killed by his fellow federal law enforcement colleague. National political actors use his death to curry political hatred, demonization of immigrants and tries to cover up the real reason for the agent’s death.
Corpus Christi of Santa Teresa Border Crossing, a short story about the most unique border crossing in Texas/New Mexico where Mexican cattle are loaded onto leviathan trucks daily. The beef products from this most economically important crossing account for approximately 40% of all beef consumed in the U.S. and Mexico.
Sartor Resartus, a story of a Mexican orphan, born to a Mexican maquiladora cut-and-sew worker who dies of tuberculous. The child is fostered by two ex-Frenchmen in the fashion industry of Reynosa, Mexico/McAllen, Texas. The boy later designs the costumes for the most significant musical of la frontera, VIVA!
El Gato, the story of a fly fisherman at the Amistad Reservoir in Del Rio who survives an explosive trauma with the help of a wild jaguar.
El Nino, a glimpse of the women along the rural border area providing healthcare to area women who no long have access to healthcare as a results of the most recent Supreme Court decisions and offers a prelude to the alternative if the Supremes continue against the use of Mifepristone.
These are a few of the selected short stories from Heartbeats of the Borderland.
La Cueva, a novel of the three-thousand-year-old cave and home to the Texas Lipan Apache tribe, shelters its last inhabitant and only shaman, and unexpectantly becomes a sanctuary for U.S. Marshal Alex Ranslow who experiences severe heat stroke while wandering the west Texas desert.
Together the two shaman investigate a grave robbing scheme that is systematically taking ancient Native America grave goods and mummies for black market sales. The crimes, in violation of the 1990 NAGPRA, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, test the statute’s viability against bigoted Texas ranchers and black-market profiteers.
True, the Lipan Apache shaman, and Alex encounter a well-organized caravan of Mexican and Mexican American women, the acompañantes, also wandering the far west Texas desert for a completely different purpose, dispensing needed medication to poor women in rural Texas and where the acompañantes also share their home-made jewelry with their patients.
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