Somewhere, by someone, shots are fired. Violence in the streets. Statues are toppled. Bricks are tossed. The sound of breaking glass.
The dried palms on thatched roof houses are the perfect kindling. They burn and burn. In seconds the flames reach the treetops. Black smoke fills the air.
Crowds of people running. Shouting. There’s tussling. Struggling. Some knocked to the ground and trampled on.
In the sky above three red-crowned parrots holler in unison: “Heeeyo, cra-cra-cra. Heeeyo, cra-cra-cra.”
Is there anywhere safe? Somewhere to go? Into the wilderness? Into the sea?
Confusion.
Disarray.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Screams.
Bullet holes in the cathedral walls.
Thunder and lightning.
Wind and rain.
Blood stained sand.
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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Somewhere, by someone, shots are fired. Violence in the streets. Statues are toppled. Bricks are tossed. The sound of breaking glass.
The dried palms on thatched roof houses are the perfect kindling. They burn and burn. In seconds the flames reach the treetops. Black smoke fills the air.
Crowds of people running. Shouting. There’s tussling. Struggling. Some knocked to the ground and trampled on.
In the sky above three red-crowned parrots holler in unison: “Heeeyo, cra-cra-cra. Heeeyo, cra-cra-cra.”
Is there anywhere safe? Somewhere to go? Into the wilderness? Into the sea?
Confusion.
Disarray.
Bang. Bang. Bang.
Screams.
Bullet holes in the cathedral walls.
Thunder and lightning.
Wind and rain.
Blood stained sand.
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.