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Returning and Searching: Pre-Postlude
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL Patrick Cabello Hansel Searching…Returning…what’s next? Finding? Becoming? Next month’s chapter will be the final one in this second novella. We will—or will we?—find out what happens to our little holy family. Will they find Lupita? Will Agnes save them or betray them one more time? What will happen to their nemesis Brian Fleming and the forces he represents?A little recap is in order. In the first novella, “Searching” set roughly in 2006, Angel and Luz meet under trying circumstances. An immigration raid, an assault, the uncovering of family secrets. And the mystery of their shared ancestor. Mateo Kelly Hidalgo, who lived in the swale (East Phillips)—a hundred years ago, and who may still haunt the place. Luz and Angel battle evil from the present and the past. They traveled through many parts of Phillips: Maria’s Café, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, Mercado Central, and ended up underneath the baptismal window at St. Paul’s [...]
“Searching,” Chapter 34 Epilog
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL “One person”™s found is another person”™s lost.” We are taught that this is true, that there always must be winners and losers, that it is part of the way the world is made, that the “invisible hand” directs the fortunes of everyone, and that as one rises, another must fall. But what if by searching and finding, or even by searching and not finding, we are more connected to our fellow human beings? What if our search, our healing and our wisdom multiplies unto others, so that as one of us is found, we all are? It is easy to speculate on what will become of Angel and Luz, our beloveds. It is easy to speculate, and hard to know. They have found each other, and they are willing to go to any length to keep that treasure that is their love. But we know that love untested is not real love, and that it is in trial that we often find our true strength. Luz and Angel will now walk together, and discover together, what [...]
“Searching,” A Serial Novelle”” Chapter 1
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL EDITOR”™S NOTE Regarding “SEARCHING” Alley Communications has been honored and pleased to publish this novella by Patrick Cabello Hansel in The Alley Newspaper -- a first for The Alley and for any local community paper as far as we know. Many noteworthy writers published novels in a serial format in newspapers or other periodicals; for example Charles Dickens published chapters at regular intervals and if they became popular he would publish the chapters as a book. Some writers sought and even depended upon reader comments and suggestions as they developed their novels. All 34 Chapters are at: www.alleynews.org/category/searching Left to right: Orson Scott Card “Intergalactic Medicine Show”; Michael Chabon “Gentlemen of the Road”; Wilkie Collins “The Moonshine”; Charles Dickens “The Pickwick Papers”; Harriet Beecher Stowe “Uncle Tom”™s Cabin”; Sir Arthur [...]
