can a frustrated single mom and failed big city journalist save her family and salvage her career by returning to a town run by a gang of bungling thugs?


“The Resurrection of Puerto Cielo” is a novella published in serial form, 43 posts.




13


What stood out was the stink. The grimacing reek of death, the foul accumulation of years of guts tossed from the fish processing pier. Though the ever squawking gulls inhaled most of the carnage, enough spilled up the beach to gift the neighborhood with a permanent stench.

Across the street from the beach no one walked on, a ghostly mist shrouded the flaming neon Red Rooster sign. A steady stream of featureless forms vanished into the bar’s shadows.

Inside, dim light and smokey haze hid years of spilled beer and broken dreams. At the bar, men nursed drink