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“My Grandmother’s Tortillas” is a fictitious story based on true events. It is a memoire of childhood events while growing up around my grandparents’ home. It is a story that shows how a grandmother’s love is transferred into her daily staple, “tortillas!” The story comes to life with the reader’s theater depicting a genre of realistic fiction. It is a relived recipe with culture and family values that opens up the mind to the picturesque traditional Hispanic abodes. Finally, this story creates a family’s timeline of past generations and creates a pathway for generations to come.

For 18-year-old Blackard Knotts (Black), life is simple; hang out, get high and live to tell about it. But when tragedy hits his block he turns to the one person he feels has the answer he needs to make his cloudy view of life clear—his mom. But with her time so consumed with work and church, would she have the time to give him what he needs more then anyone else? This short, yet shocking, story of choices and consequences is one to be thought through carefully. Consider this as you explore the mind and heart of first-time writer and author, Virgil Fripp, while answering the question that all of humanity have been faced with at one point in life. What Now!

In the 24th Century...Jane Austen, Robert A. Heinlein, Sophia Loren, and the Texas/Arkansas 1969 Shootout...all have one thing in common: Captain Tom Duncan's interplanetary freighter, XIANNE....