‘Searching’ Archives
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 34: Everywhere you are is where you’re supposed to be
By Patrick Cabello Hansel There is something about coming in from the cold that warms the heart along with the rest of the body. Angel and Luz had literally come in from a long, cold search; as they woke on that clear, bright December morning, their hearts knew—ahead of their brains—that they had come in out of the cold of fear and hatred, [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 33: In Their Unknowing Grew A Great Joy
The procession was led by a group of children, dressed in bright red vests and carrying the most beautiful stars on thin poles. Each star had a face, and each face had a story. Ahead, the bright star on the church tower grew bigger and bigger. A guitar and the words of a Christmas bolero floated from the tower. All around them, Angel and Luz [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 32: Crossing the Bridge
By Patrick Cabello Hansel The next night, the longest and coldest of the year, Luz and Angel were out on the streets walking. Their plans had only extended to meeting at the Mercado Central for dinner, but as they sat in the dining area—Angel eating a Sandwich Cubano from Manny’s, Luz finishing off her Sweet Corn Tamal and Champurrado from [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 31: Towards the Unkown
By Patrick Cabello Hansel We use the phrase “love birds” to describe a couple in love who seem to have grown wings of joy. They can be 18 or 19, 80 or 90. It is the quality of their embrace that lifts them off the ordinary ground. When Luz and Angel kissed in the deep snow at the cemetery, they were the love birds we love. When they [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 30: Drop The Maybe
By Patrick Cabello Hansel Luz and Angel walked in silence to the cemetery. The clouds had disappeared, and the nearly first quarter moon hung like a bowl tipped up to pour out blessings. They stopped by the closed gates and looked at the sky together. Midnight passed, and the slow December march t the dawn began quietly. “Do you think [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 29: Hammer And Chalice And Jail
By Patrick Cabello Hansel As the evening rolled on, and Luz became warmer, the little man in the corner—if indeed he was a man—played a mournful, soulful tune on his violin. Luz realized she was humming along, and was about to ask where the song came from, but the old woman spoke first, almost as if she heard Luz’ question in her [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 28: POINT THEM TOWARDS THE FIRE
By Patrick Cabello Hansel Sit down, dear. You must be so cold. Let me take your wrap, and have a nice cup of tea.” So spoke the old woman into whose house Luz had stumbled. She didn’t realize how cold she was until she found herself in the warmth of this woman’s house, a house full of candles and music and smells of baking. For [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 27: “Komma”
By Patrick Cabello Hansel While Angel was having the ride of his life, Luz was trying to get back from the deep darkness that had crept—no, roared back—into hers. She had never forgotten the pain and humiliation of her adolescence, in fact on some days she could almost taste what the boys had done to her and said to her, and what the girls [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 26: “Little Do We Know”
By Patrick Cabello Hansel Little did Angel know that the man driving the delivery van was not the flower lady’s son. He did not know what her son looked like, and he could not have known that he had been carjacked a few minutes before. And so when the man honked the horn in front of the shop and motioned impatiently for Angel to climb in, [...]
Searching – A Serial Novelle Chapter 25: “Something Special for Someone Special”
By Patrick Cabello Hansel Sometimes you have to stop searching, and let the search find you. Sometimes you have to let go in order to hold onto what you really love. Ana and Luz had confronted their pasts, now it was time to discern where the past was going. And as they walked out into the still swirling snow, they realized they had to do this [...]
