Writing Spaces

 

So much of my writing has been in Santa Fe lately, as if seated in this old Santa Fe garden.

images:  Christie B. Cochrell

Interview with The Plentitudes

 

For further information on "The Persian Warrior," see here.

Camino Escondido

 

For much of my writing life I've been working on various versions of the stranger-than-fiction story of the theft of La Conquistadora* that took place in Santa Fe the spring of my senior year of high school (with an actual connection to our school and class, as it turned out)—an event which rather shook the town.  My most recent version, now at "novelette" length, has just been published by Eclectica Magazine.  It's been fun to spend time in Santa Fe as it was then, performing conjuring tricks with restaurants etc. which have since ceased to exist, and with devices, songs, and objects which have only afterwards come into being.

*  "the oldest continuously venerated image of the Virgin Mary in the U.S., which arrived in Santa Fe on a wagon train in 1626"

See also La Conquistadora (Version One)

and The Theft of Faith

and La Conquistadora (Version Two), Beginnings

 

and Statues, my first novel, somewhere here in my writing archive.

 

images:  Fiesta de Santa Fe

Aleteia

Adobe Gallery

Catamaran

 

I'm happy to report that the first three of my stories published by Catamaran, "Vagaries," "Hearing Loss," and "Moroccan Spices," are now all available online in their fiction archive.

image:  Claude Monet, Sailboats on the Seine at Gennevilliers