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Preview of Manana, Today
by David LaPlantz ·
Black lightening swopped down from the dark sky and consumed the corn field. The singe smelled like tortillas, ordered over uneasy. The ears became like torches on stilts and the illuminated light flooded the nighttime landscape with ghostly halloween shadows. Small animals ran and hid in fear, dogs barked and howled, while Joe the citizen farmer chuckled to himself……. Kenneth Arnold muttered, “I saw a UFO hovering soundlessly…..” Esme wondered if this event portended the end of the world.
Meanwhile the tortilla scent pervaded…….
Someone from New Mexico queried,”Red or green?”