Bøker av R. Garcia Vazquez

Nine unique stories, nine psychological and spiritual portraits, nine ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary world of the human heart. Bonniah, torn between her demanding husband and unlucky sister, faces a life-changing decision. While his wheelchair-bound wife struggles to finish a jigsaw puzzle back home, Joseph flirts with a woman he encounters at the supermarket. For an up-and-coming young narcissist, love is a multiple-choice game he's sure he'll win every time. After his wife's improbable betrayal, Francis navigates a lifetime of regrets and surprising discoveries. Trapped in an abusive marriage, Norma is approached by a strange, daring young man the day of her daughter's wedding. Consumed by guilt and regret, Brian attends the wake of a lover he once abandoned and meets her husband and son. Wanting to leave his painful past behind, David decides to move to Spain, but before leaving, he agrees to help a colleague's mistrustful wife by spying on her husband. When a lover from the past reappears in his life, Nick is faced with an unforeseeable, life-threatening decision. After losing his job to corporate downsizing, Amador recalls the day long ago when his father threw a dinner plate against the kitchen wall and comes to a deeper understanding of the real world. A rare and illuminating short story collection. R. Garcia Vazquez's literary prose conditions the eye to the dimly lit places where the lonely and wounded begin to discover the amazing possibilities of who they can become.

After the Apocalypse, strange visitors arrive, presumably to "save" what's left of humanity. For 2000 years, their rule goes unquestioned. One day, a teenaged girl hears a voice that could change everything. Long before Ava Blue's discovery, the wayward son of a tech mogul returns from Europe to rebuild his life. But 2101 AD has other plans for Merlin Stone, America and Terra. Misleading reports of a so-called "space hurricane" herald the deaths of billions. Sickened by the disclosure, Merlin rejects his father's invitation to join the secret Deo exodus to Mars. In 4104 AD, Ava uncovers Merlin's buried recordings of Terra's most horrific era. His Notes reveal a story of humanity that refutes the teachings of the ruling Keepers. Mysterious forces lead Ava and friends through a timeway back to 2104, where they become unwitting protagonists of a spectacle viewed by a raucous intergalactic crowd. The timeleapers' life and death choices will impact the fate of humanity, for better or worse. R. Garcia Vazquez's science fiction adventure blends cyberpunk, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic elements with a touch of the supernatural, along with questions about power, greed and human identity. This speculative fiction epic targets a central question posed by Philip K Dick: What constitutes the authentic human being?

On a winter morning in 1977, Lucas falls in love. Callie completes him, but soon he begins to doubt her. Bad things start happening. Did he get it all wrong? At his new job, the troubled young husband is approached by an attractive older woman with a hidden past. Their playful, seemingly innocent, affinity turns into a toxic mutual dependence that leads to unimaginable consequences. Callie disappears with the baby. Lucas suffers devastating setbacks as he crosses mental, spiritual and international borders in search of Callie and Johnny. In his darkest moment, he is tempted to do the unthinkable. This provocative psychological thriller unfolds where the line between reality and illusion is blurred, and where encounters with psychopaths, saints, and everyday people compel Lucas to finally ask himself, "Who am I meant to be?"