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Podcasts: Readings of full chapters and front matter from Hire Lernin’ (My new novel)

Please click on the two links below for a full reading of the first two chapters from my recently released novel. You can also find additional full chapter readings in this blog at https://victordlopez.wordpress.com/sample-chapter-readings-from-my-new-novel/. The novel is now available in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions at Amazon and at your favorite book retailer. As always, thank you for your support.

Podcast links to the English and Spanish versions of my poem “True Love” [El Amor Verdadero]

The English version of this poem is from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) collection. The Spanish version. will be published in a forthcoming book that will feature original poems written in Spanish and translated from my English originals with the working title Ecos del Alba en Tinieblas.

Podcast: “The Day the Dolphins Vanished”.

This podcast consists of my reading of one of the 13 short stories in my recently released Echoes of the Mind’s Eye

collection. The story is also available as a stand-alone eBook as are 11 of the 13 short stories in the collection.

Amazon description: Human beings are not the only intelligent life forms on Earth and possibly not the most intelligent. Efforts at communicating with marine mammals such as whales and dolphins whose brains are larger than our own have had very limited success t...

Podcast: A complete reading of my short story, “The Riddle of the Sphinx: Solved”

This is one of the 13 short stories in my new short story collection, Echoes of the Mind’s Eye (and is also available as a two-short story eBook here). The short story posits one plausible solution to the enigma that is the Great Sphinx of Giza. Egyptologists have long debated the true nature of the sphinx and its original form. Traditional wisdom holds that it was originally a lion and that the lion’s head was later carved into the likeness of a great pharaoh, though debate still rages as to wh...

Podcast: Readings of my poem, Unsung Heroes VI – Lita (Mom) [Héroes Desconocidos VI: Lita (Mamá)] in its English and Spanish versions.

This podcast contains my reading of the sixth part of my longest free verse poem to date, Unsung Heroes, and chronicles details about my mom who lived an incredibly difficult life–more so than even my dad–full of personal tragedy and unfulfilled potential as she left school at the age of 11 to help her mom put food on the table for her 9 brothers and sisters when her dad died shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War by working full time (illegally) at an uncle’s cannery. She had missed sch...

EL LEGADO DE MAMÁ

POETAS EN LA NOCHE

Solo una cosa nos dijo,
una cosa nos pidió.
Y si con el paso del tiempo
olvidáramos su voz
nos lo dejo por escrito.
Escrito con mucho amor.

Hijitos míos decía,
os pido solo un favor,
que os queráis muchiño siempre,
que os tratéis con mucho amor,
que no olvidéis el cariño
que vuestra madre os dejó.

No tengo nada que daros,
ya todo os lo di yo
cuando lo necesitasteis,
y os lo di de corazón.

Pero eso sí,
mis hijiños
no olvidéis mi petición,
es mi único deseo,
es mi mayor ilusión.
Que os tengái...

Podcasts: Readings (English and Spanish) of my poem Unsung Heroes V: Felipe (Dad)

This podcast is a reading of the fifth part of my six-part free verse poem about my personal heroes. This part concerns my dad who lived a difficult life in three continents and achieved both relative wealth, suffered poverty despite working long hours with excellent salaries, without ever complaining, shirking his responsibilities, blaming others or compromising his principles. The world never needed people like my dad more than it does today–men and women who set high standards for themselves ...

Until June 30–40% off my book of short stories

For the next two weeks only and only at the link that follows, you can download a copy of the eBook version of my recently released book of contemporary speculative fiction short stories at a forty-percent discount. The discount is only available through Smashwords for the ebook version of the book in all leading formats and expires June 30, 2021. For details about the book, to download free previews and/or take advantage of this limited sale, you can click here: Echoes of the Mind’s Eye: 13 Spe...

Podcast: Commentary on my well-traveled published books (and the new 40-50 percent library discounts they inspired today)

Podcasts: Readings of English and Spanish versions of my poem Unsung Heroes IV – Maria