‘Searching’ Archives
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 whispered around her. But she had tried to stuff it down so far into herself that she felt her body always heavy and tired. And now, one of those who had hurt her had come back. He wore a new scar on his face, courtesy of the man she loved. “I”'m glad Angel cut him,” she said out loud, “I wish he would have killed him!” And immediately begin to sob. Luz had been taught the way of forgiveness. Not just by words at her church, but by the loving actions of her uncle and aunt who had raised her. After her assault, when she had become by turns withdrawn and openly hostile, they had hung in there with [...]
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, Angel did exactly that. “So you need a ride, huh?” the man asked. He was crouched over the steering wheel, his hooded grey sweatshirt pulled tight over his ears. Angel thought he smelled something strange in the man. “Yes, thank you so much,” Angel replied. He noticed that although the heater was on full blast, he still felt chilled. Down to his bones cold. The van turned onto 28th Street and headed west, the snow seeming to blow in from all directions of the compass at once. “Is that a present for your lady?” he asked. “No, it”'s for my parents,” Angel [...]
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 part of the search alone. “Luz”, Angel said, timidly. “I think I need to go talk to my mom and dad some more. I want to make sure that you”'re OK. I don”'t want to leave you alone when”¦” His voice broke off, and he held his head up to the sky, as if in desperate prayer. Luz took his arm with her hand. “I”'ll be all right, mi amor. I need to see about some things myself. I”'ll be OK.” “I don”'t want you to be afraid,” he told her. “Angel, it”'s one thing to be afraid. It”'s another to live in fear. Do you know the [...]
