The Cycle of Ramón and Other Stories from the Cantina (Short Story Collections)

This is a collection of magic realism short stories.

In the title story, sometimes letting go just isn't possible. You've loved the same soul down through the ages, but just before you can be together forever, he is ripped away yet again. The eerily weeping heavens combine with the sea and a departed love to ease the burden of the one who has been left behind.

In "Carmen, Whose Face Was Cracked," the kindest and most beautiful woman in all of Mexico suffers a cracked face, and it has nothing ...