Controversy between GGM and MAA (Short Story) - 9/8/2026 7:34:16 PM
It's good to see you posting again.
I haven't read any of those authors, even though I'm sure their works are translated into English. It is sad that South and Central America have struggled with stability since leaving the hold of colonial Spain and Portugal. It continues today and creates great content for Latin America writers to explore.
Ron
Lorca's Death Intrigue (Short Story) - 7/9/2026 8:48:25 AM
Hey, hope you're having a great week! I've been following your work for a bit now and honestly, your latest pieces have been amazing. The way you hook the reader is great. Quick question for you: do you have a specific routine that helps you get into the creative zone, or do you just write whenever inspiration strikes?
Hospital V (Short Story) - 7/8/2026 2:43:06 PM
Hello,
I just finished reading your story and wanted to reach out. I've read many stories online, but yours had something special about it. The writing felt immersive, cinematic, and incredibly easy to visualize.
As a commissioned comic artist, I work on Webtoons, comics, character illustrations, and cover art. Your story has all the ingredients of a great visual project, and I would love the opportunity to discuss a possible comic adaptation with you.
If you're interested, feel free to contact me on Inst.gram (luna art soul).
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Luna
Hospital V (Short Story) - 5/4/2026 12:06:10 PM
I love physiologists and physical therapists. They know what quads need.
When I went to the Mayo Clinic (Where Hollywood stars went for consultation) for a second opinion upon my neurosurgeon wishing to go back into my spinal cord and cause more damage to cure me, I was descended upon by psychiatrists. I left that day without going to the funny farm, so I guess I was all right.
Ron
Lorca's Death Intrigue (Short Story) - 3/28/2026 11:57:07 AM
Thank you for your introduction to the author, Lorka. He appears to be part of the shaping of Spanish history.
I love the way you described Franco.
We have a famous case of a missing body here in the United States. Jimmy Hoffa was the head of the Teamsters Union when my father was a member. Jimmy Hoffa didn't escape punishment for criminal activity, but was in jail Homie a brief time. He was responsible for investing the Teamsters pension fund in Las Vegas.
One day he was to meet someone at a restaurant and he never showed up. His body was never found.
But DNA may help solve old cases like this. Yesterday, DNA found a killer that killed a couple at a lovers lane in 1990. He's almost too old to go to jail.
Ron
Hospital IV (Short Story) - 12/30/2025 8:58:27 AM
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Your images too large.
Ron
Regis Tantum (Short Story) - 12/1/2025 2:34:36 PM
Another playful romp of ego through the eyes of Leopoldo as he conquers both celebrity and royalty with ease and no compassion.
I find it hard to find any meaning in the story except a piecing together of historical events that either occurred or didn't like the famous bombing of an entire cadre of Middle Eastern royals. But King Farooq?
Ron
Hospital III (Short Story) - 11/11/2025 11:28:19 AM
I once met fellow who said he was a humanist. After listening to him for a little while I realized he was only telling me that he was extremely selfish.
But I would agree that regardless of ideological belief, everyone enjoys a good fuck with a willing partner.
Ron
Hospital II (Short Story) - 9/6/2025 1:16:48 PM
Your stories are a bunch of bull… but I enjoy them, sometimes, anyway.
Ron
PS. Of the few schizophrenics I've come in contact with during my long life, I found them all very creative because they don't think blandly like normal people, but with an urgency that belies comprehension.
Hospital I (Short Story) - 9/2/2025 11:16:25 AM
I have been examined by psychiatrists, but never experienced anything like that. I was looking for the humor in it but found maybe more irony as you were carded off to the psychiatric unit rather than going home.
Ron
What I have to say (Short Story) - 6/22/2025 2:33:19 PM
I think your messages getting through.
Ron
The black patent leather shoes (Short Story) - 3/16/2025 12:00:20 PM
Well, the thing is we live comfortably and people don't usually claim the Eradication of Poverty because we live in a world where an Ideal Republic is not esteemed as essential, to be precise to control the masses that are under the rod of cruel and haughty Capitalism. Like nobody is so innocent, we know why chiefs of state and presidents have had the opportunity and they have not. Envy and Malice. Remember the legend on the frontispice of Apollo's Delphos Temple: 'Misery conveys lawsuits'. The other two legends say 'Know yourself' and 'Do not desire anything in excess'.
Guess how much we are comrades that we both killed more than 20 fascists attending Franco's speech on a July 18 when we were 10 years old.
The black patent leather shoes (Short Story) - 3/15/2025 12:17:46 PM
From what I can read Pablo was not your friend.
Ron
Jesus Christ Kills Gestas (Short Story) - 12/31/2023 12:44:32 PM
This appears to be the whole novel in English from the bits and pieces that I've read before. You certainly begin with a very bloody introduction to killing fascist at a very young age. This tapers off into a ne'er-do-well life as a young man mooching off everyone else rather than producing anything good for society. Communism's downfall.
I agree that capitalism needs to be fairer than it ever has been, but when communism turns to fascism or democracy turns to fascism, a corrupt form of capitalism is the result. A return to the autocracy of the past where monarchs and emperors ruled with impunity until they were overthrown, and the over throwers started all over again.
Ron
Last History lesson (Short Story) - 11/26/2022 2:59:41 PM
Dear Ronald.
About governments Plato thought his method of ideal society was not very easy to develop at that time being, but if it was accepted by the people somewhere, it would be a success and all the peoples would agree on this, once it is widely recognized having seen its advantages.
Leopoldo
Zurbarán (Short Story) - 11/26/2022 9:46:09 AM
Your stories always speak of violence and beauty. You never give any real motive for the violence, like why this man was shot in the kitchen. There had to be some deep reason why your father did that and your mother approved. Again, your story is fiction, told as if it were you, at six with two guns in your hands, shooting at your father's command.
When my father, told me when I was 15, to shoot a doe that was illegal, I told him, "No!" In your stories, there is no hesitation. Just a killing as though it was natural and deserved.
It must've been wonderful growing up in Spain where all of that classic literature and artwork was easily at hand, in people's homes and museums. While I was interested in drawing cars and horses at an early age, I was only introduced classics in school and my encyclopedia was not 100 volumes, only 19.
It was in high school where we scoured the library floor naked women, because the urge was there but the naked women were not. I remember finding the works of Degas, nearly all nudes in the best of our little library where books about sexual stories were rare.
Thanks to good editing, your work is much easier to read and enjoyable, always thinking, did you really engage in all of these rebellious activities? You certainly reflect Spain and all of its turmoil.
Ron
Last History lesson (Short Story) - 9/13/2022 12:03:24 PM
Likely, it happened just that way. The professor, Manuel Rivera, lecturing about the difference between capitalism and communism, losing track of his discussion and moving into how long people will live or have lived.
I believe in those days, rulers were used to slap the fingers of anyone who dared to act out in class.
Only one thing. All of the communist regimes started out fairly enough, electing committees to guide plans and allocate resources. Those committees generally turned into individuals superior to the workers who reaped power and wealth from the sweat of the workers' brow. When that happened, a military sort, acting in behalf of the people, the workers, overthrew the committee and installed his/her own. So that leader became a despot dictator worse than any benevolent monarch. It was all about wealth, after all. Not benevolent rule of love and friendship.
Ron
The hidden room (Short Story) - 6/19/2022 12:25:51 PM
Only in dreams.
Ron
Damned bourgeois servitude (Short Story) - 4/3/2022 9:58:05 AM
Your attempt to change the world has largely failed, but the message has come through. When I say failure I mean the failure of communism as a form of government, in every case where it has been tried, turned into socialist states run by dictators no better than common criminals who not only did not produce any capital, but took the capital of the countries they grabbed by force to themselves from the poor people who they threw flowers to when they were dying of famine. Forced labor worse than the capitalists had always enacted.
The truth lies in well-regulated capitalism where unfairness is eliminated while individual achievement and productivity, creativity is allowed to flourish. For those who produce ideas and knowledge, but no moneymaking goods or services, a good living wage, and for those in our leadership of government and industry only a small portion of wealth greater to keep the incentive to improve and create new alive. Income inequity and monopoly result in death of extreme capitalistic practices. Often, revolution.
The middle road is more agreeable to everyone in the world and the conflict between ruthless capitalism and ruthless communism, causing so many wars, death and misery, should be banished in a more enlightened 21st century. No more history repeating itself like it always has.
Ron
Belén's lips (Short Story) - 3/9/2022 11:06:34 AM
Belén's lips, and her eyes, certainly do look intriguing.
Ron
Dostoyevski, The idiot (Short Story) - 10/23/2021 3:00:24 PM
I don't know the story but if the book keeps you amused, then the book is a successive work of the author.
Sandie :)
Dostoyevski, The idiot (Short Story) - 10/23/2021 10:26:55 AM
There is a moral there somewhere in the story. Mainly, don't be an idiot or a bull in a china shop (another story of morality).
But did he lose the inheritance? Probably nat and live the life of a rich old hermit who didn't trust anyone after losing those loves. Poor fellow.
Ron
On Langston Hughes (Short Story) - 5/27/2021 8:59:08 AM
Your article presents a good view of Langston Hughes's lifelong struggle that he expressed so well in his poems. I have not read Langston, but many herald him for his work about the Harlem Renaissance. While your wording in some cases may be questioned by those wishing to eradicate negative words about their race, I believe you are wishing him well in the future of the African-American race, in a left-handed way…
Ron
Lentils (Short Story) - 5/11/2021 4:11:23 AM
You acquired the taste for lentils, sweetened by your childhood memory.
Lentils (Short Story) - 5/6/2021 6:16:11 PM
That was hilarious! I'm so glad you like lentils now.
Sandie :)
Tightness in humoured sex (Article) - 10/16/2025 2:49:36 PM
It may be lost in translation. Perhaps "tightness" means a restricted way of using the story or looking at it. Or it may mean that the story is short.
I didn't have a grasp of what you were writing or why it was particularly sexual.
Ron
Last History Lesson (Article) - 11/27/2021 11:40:45 AM
An interesting discourse. Particularly from the Spanish point of view.
I believe you are right about living a long life because archaeology and anthropology are very quickly confirming the truth of many ancient legends and myths.
But the human lifespan is well known at about 125 years. A few people have approached that life, but the stories of those older are probably fiction.
Ron
Last History lesson (Article) - 7/5/2021 1:25:51 PM
I have mixed thoughts about what your teacher, Manuel Rivera, taught. Especially his view of communism and capitalism. I will not go into the detail but I don't agree with his (your?) assessment of the situation of the two forms of economy, not government.
And the description of long life, using hearsay and legend is way off. Scientifically, it is known that the human lifespan is 120 years. Here in the United States, we often hear about people over 100. Two of my uncles have lived to 102. Both of them led low stress and relaxed, at their own pace, lives, with good food and friends. Lately, I have heard of people exceeding 110 years and actually see them on videos. But they die shortly after.
Kirk Douglas, a Russian Jew who escaped communism wrote a stunning letter in the New York Times when he was 100 denouncing Republicans for their misguided beliefs and actions. He played some of the legendary figures you mentioned throughout his life and died at 102 last year. Active right up until the end, even after having a debilitating stroke.
Ron
The Psychological Test (Article) - 6/7/2020 11:01:09 AM
As I read, you confirm to me that this was, indeed a psychological test. Perhaps a test developed by a learned psychologist/professor.
We often reveal our psychological state by what we write or even what we draw. It is interesting that some people with distraught psychologies like van Gogh and Edgar Allen Poe turned out what becomes genius in the eyes of the beholder.
Ron
The books I had in my library (Article) - 2/4/2020 9:39:04 AM
Your list of books that you have read is amazing! I never read, like you, for the mere pleasure of reading. Only as a result of schoolwork that I needed to accomplish. I was appreciative of the books that my teachers required me to read, and by the time I was working on my doctorate, I read many books of philosophy, helping to frame my worldview that I retained to this day.
Thanks for the enlightenment!
Ron
Betrayal (Poetry) - 10/1/2020 10:31:43 AM
Indeed Leopoldo wisdom is to make happy your people. To fight against injustice. I thoroughly enjoy this poem. Thanks.
Equality (Poetry) - 1/5/2019 3:57:56 PM
The subject you have chosen to write about is what made me read the poem. I appreciate the ideas you express, but the translation really needs some work. I am saying this as a translator and I hope you don't mind my comment. Keep on writing.
Equality (Poetry) - 9/19/2017 7:40:27 AM
In spite of the idea that there is a grand design by some god or gods that predestines all that we do, I believe that, in the perfection of evolution, we gained intelligence they gave us an advantage over all other mammals merely surviving on instincts and adaptations that allowed the species to continue.
The prehistory and history of Homo sapiens contains the violent acts that are seen in troops of apes or monkeys, the most intelligent of mammals. Violent acts are also part of whales and dolphins as a natural way of each species surviving using power and dominance to control.
We have always had dominant leaders in families, cultures, and governments. These leaders usually took more than followers. But usually within the structure of the family or tribe, like a wolf pack, the weak and underperforming were cared for.
When you suggest that everyone take an equal share without making an equal contribution, you violate the natural order of things. As has been proven by communist states established, the inherent weakness of equality for all leaves a leadership gap that is quickly filled by despotic opportunists and the whole economy suffers from the weakness of misplaced priorities.
I agree with you that we should make sure that the weakest and least productive of us are cared for like in the pack. But, there are those that would use their power and dominance try to take more than they deserve. They like, in the pack, deserve to be banished.
Ron
Tears (Poetry) - 6/1/2017 11:36:07 AM
I love your artistic values xo
Tears (Poetry) - 6/1/2017 7:55:34 AM
Too many deaths and tears shed over ideology--all or nothingness. There has to be a way be fair to everyone and get along without leaders who dictate or plunder.
Ron
Betrayal (Poetry) - 4/21/2017 6:08:33 AM
As I read I saw some similarities to what is happening in United States compared to the bloodied history of Spanish politics and civil war.
Interesting… And, we all know what happens to "gung-ho communism." It seems to quickly deteriorate into a dictatorship worse than a monarchy or state socialism where there is a ruling class of politicos that run everything with an iron hand, forcing their version of communism down the throats of everyone else.
Communism, giving everyone an equal start, lacks the organizational hierarchy created by free enterprise and therefore quickly becomes unproductive when everyone thinks everyone else is doing something for them for free. That's why communism falls into near anarchy very fast.
Ron
Soldiers (Poetry) - 3/27/2017 6:43:16 AM
With this poem, you share a different view of communism than most people have. Unfortunately, the cyber revolution is moving people from the worker category into unemployment or a service modality that can also be removed by robotic servants.
The idea of a "workers'" party doesn't work well when there are no workers left.
Ron
The President is waiting in Usera (Poetry) - 3/15/2017 6:18:35 AM
A viewpoint not shared by very many because of the fiery rhetoric and references to failed communist ideologies in the past. Tried and found to be untrue in practice.
Ron
Popular Front (Poetry) - 2/10/2017 8:53:24 AM
There are some parallels in Spain's history to what is happening here today. Our president claims to be the champion of the popular vote--the people. We'll see…
Ron
In the park (Poetry) - 11/2/2016 6:02:53 PM
Like old thinkers said each generation has its revolution and most of times they have even their wars. Leopoldo.
In the park (Poetry) - 11/1/2016 10:20:39 AM
Did the revolution fail? If it did, why?
Ron
The imperialists (Poetry) - 10/2/2016 5:53:33 AM
Some strong words for enemies to the common people. It seems like every place on earth with the peaceful existence has been invaded at one time or another. It makes me wonder why people can't get along. Often over outmoded ideas.
Ron
Revolution and the Moon (Poetry) - 4/19/2015 7:43:04 AM
Better to stay true to yourself and to your principles. Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Peace to you.
Don Quixote's Teachings (Poetry) - 5/20/2014 6:17:01 AM
Cervantes wrote a great parable. That is why Don Quixote is one of those classic books that everyone should read for the lessons that it tells.
To have your format come out correctly on this page, be sure to paste your writing "special" rather than just an ordinary paste. On my browser it's called, Paste and Match Style.
Ron
