Unable to pay his debts to various creditors after a string of poor business decisions, Armando Soto and his family escaped from Monterrey, crossing the Sierra Madres with a caravan of horses and mules, surviving on machaca and pan de elote. His wife Priscilla, daughter, and a young woman, only referred to as their Indian cook, or La Chichimeca, accompanied him on the journey. The geography was rugged and harsh. These weren’t the flat, fertile plains to the north, but a tumultuous terrain that rose suddenly from the dry western slopes to nearly impenetrable forests of oaks and pines, where the rain and the mist felt like a veil to a clandestine realm that few had ever explored. Monarch butterflies danced in their path and they saw the footprints of pumas and other felines in the moist soil on more than one occasion.
A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.
A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.
The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.
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Unable to pay his debts to various creditors after a string of poor business decisions, Armando Soto and his family escaped from Monterrey, crossing the Sierra Madres with a caravan of horses and mules, surviving on machaca and pan de elote. His wife Priscilla, daughter, and a young woman, only referred to as their Indian cook, or La Chichimeca, accompanied him on the journey. The geography was rugged and harsh. These weren’t the flat, fertile plains to the north, but a tumultuous terrain that rose suddenly from the dry western slopes to nearly impenetrable forests of oaks and pines, where the rain and the mist felt like a veil to a clandestine realm that few had ever explored. Monarch butterflies danced in their path and they saw the footprints of pumas and other felines in the moist soil on more than one occasion.
A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.
A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.
The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.