Tropical Tales of Terror
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As an English professor at the University of Puerto Rico I was often faced with the challenge of finding short stories that my students could relate to, stories set in a time and place that would be more familiar to them than our usual fare. There is something special about seeing a real place in fiction; a place you know, which makes both the location and the story seem more real, more believable. As a former New Yorker Ive delighted in seeing the Big Apple destroyed by giant apes, killer meteorites, post-Apocalyptic wars and, most recently, by a giant, hermaphrodite, radioactive lizard, a.k.a. Godzilla. Dont get me wrong. Its not that I wish ill on the city of my birth. Its just that I think that, somehow, you can connect better with the narrative if you can say to yourself, Hey, I know that place. Ive been there.Although we do have in our curriculum, here at UPR Aguadilla, courses that cover most of the American and British literary classics, I felt we were lacking in the area of lighter, short stories set in a context familiar to our student body. In this collection I strive to provide my readers, students and otherwise, contemporary fantasy/science fiction that is set in modern day Puerto Rico, fantastic tales taking place squarely in the culture and world of this Caribbean country.The first story, My Name is Lilith is the saga of an immortal woman, the biblical Adams first wife, who is now living in Puerto Rico. She is working as a botanist at the tropical rain forest reserve known as El Yunque. There, under orders of God, she is concealing and protecting a very special tree. Hot on her trail is a creature that is half angel, half-human and all evil. It too wants to gain control of that special plant, the biblical Tree of Life, but for a different reason. This being wants to feed an army of his followers with its immortality granting fruit and use it to gain control over humanity. Who will finally control the sacred tree that Lilith must guar
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