Monte Chapters

(Here is my attempt to make sense of the Monte Stories chapters I’ve been free writing/drafting lately. I think I might have them in some kind of order now.)

1. Carlos Stories-forward ahead to Bruna and Lena talking to Manito about Carlos

2. Intro/Background-Monte and San Luis Valley

3. Carlos and Pifanio Work in South Fork-intro to Carlo’s work

3.4 Stampede

3.5 Felipa

3.55 Felipa and Carlo on babies

3.6 Pifanio

4. Carlos and Felipa-back in time Felipa regrets marrying Carlos

5. Delores-relationships before meets Pifanio

6. Carlos-walks in sleep

6.5 Carlos sees UFO

7. Pifanio’s Wife-Delores leaves him again and again

8. Pifanio and Felipa-forward in time after Pifanio sleeps with Felipa

8.5. Carlos at Doctor

8.6 Felipa and Carlos and Pifanio Clash over Baby

9. Phone Call to Lena-Carlos calls Lena asking her to take Felipa’s baby

10. Lena’s Trip Home-Lena picks up baby and Felipa flips out

11. Felipa to Huerfano and Haunts Lena and Bruna

12. Felipa and Pifanio Get Together

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john paul jaramillo

John Paul Jaramillo’s debut story collection The House of Order was named a 2013 Int’l Latino Book Award Finalist, and his most recent work Little Mocos is now available from Twelve Winters Press. In 2013 Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature listed Jaramillo as one of its Top 10 New Latino Authors to Watch and Read. He is currently a professor of composition and literature at Lincoln Land College-Springfield, Illinois.

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