Master storyteller Alonso M. Perales spent many years working in San Antonio’s education system, achieving an outstanding record as a teacher and administrator. However, he was been better known to his family and friends as a golden repository of traditional lore, Texas history, jokes and songs he heard as a child and has repeated throughout his life to all those who would listen. He has perfected his art to the extent of being able to narrate wonderfully delicious stories in both the original Spanish and his own English translations. Now in his retirement, he has finally found the time to record these tales in print for posterity.
In true reverence for the master from whom he heard the tales as a child, Perales places the stories in the mouth of Don Emilio, the previous link in the generational chain of wise men-storytellers. After publishing two collections of stories for children, Perales has now committed to paper—and electronic text—tales for grown-ups. Star-crossed lovers who mysteriously disappear, old women who metamorphose into wicked owls and steal babies, phantoms who roam the roadside, lands stolen from the Indians sexy vamps who vanish just as their intended lover approaches—these are the enchanting legends that still reside in the Texas countryside but not for long before modernity wipes them from memory.
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