‘Searching’ Archives
SEARCHING – a Serial Novelle CHAPTER 12: The Raid
By Patrick Cabello Hansel People running in all directions. Shouting. Horns. Babies screaming. Right in front of him, an old man tripped on the ice and fell face down, splitting open his upper lip and breaking his nose. Blood poured out upon his worn Vikings sweater and onto the fresh snow. What is going on? Angel thought. Did someone get [...]
SEARCHING – a Serial Novelle CHAPTER 11: Calling
By Patrick Cabello Hansel This time, Angel did not vacillate. He walked south, past Waite House, the Islamic Center, the airplane graveyard. At the Greenway, he paused for a moment to look down. The plows had not come yet, but intrepid cyclists had carved little paths in the snow. From his point of view, they looked like chromosomes stretching [...]
SEARCHING – a Serial Novelle: CHAPTER 10: Abuela
By Patrick Cabello Hansel “Mr. Bussey, I never used to believe in ghosts”, Angel said, as he wiped up his coffee with the napkins the waitress had brought. The other patrons at Maria’s had gone back to their meals. “Oh, I’d listen to my abuela when she told us stories about the spirits” he went on, “and when she made her [...]
SEARCHING – a Serial Novelle Chapter 9: History, Part I
by Patrick Cabello Hansel (Author’s note: in the last chapter, Angel met up at Maria’s Café with his high school history teacher, who began relating a neighborhood story from the mid-19th century that he has unearthed during his sabbatical.) “Between August Ternstvedt’s little house and what became the cemetery was a low piece of [...]
SEARCHING CHAPTER 7: A New Start
By Patrick Cabello Hansel We can’t say that Angel didn’t know where to start this leg of his journey. He’d been starting his whole life. Fits and starts. False starts. Start and stop, start and stop. Angel’s problem was finishing. He’d managed to graduate from Roosevelt—barely—and he vaguely remembered the platitudes the locally [...]
