It was a monarch butterfly that first drew the attention of Priscilla to Raymundo. He watched as it fluttered across the main dining room of the Gran Hotel Santa María and landed right on a bright red zinnia in a pot that she was carrying. She smiled and kept walking, as if she knew the creature. It stayed on the flower and drew nectar from it as she continued on and Raymundo, clearly enchanted, followed her into the lobby and introduced himself. At first, she was unsure about the advances of this smooth talking, debonair gentleman that talked of high society and far off places, but when his humble upbringing disclosed itself, she could not resist any longer.
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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It was a monarch butterfly that first drew the attention of Priscilla to Raymundo. He watched as it fluttered across the main dining room of the Gran Hotel Santa María and landed right on a bright red zinnia in a pot that she was carrying. She smiled and kept walking, as if she knew the creature. It stayed on the flower and drew nectar from it as she continued on and Raymundo, clearly enchanted, followed her into the lobby and introduced himself. At first, she was unsure about the advances of this smooth talking, debonair gentleman that talked of high society and far off places, but when his humble upbringing disclosed itself, she could not resist any longer.
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.