A collection of bizarre, surrealistic stories---ranging from the frightening to the thought-provoking to the absurd---written by a Cuban-American author. A teenage boy one day wakes up speaking another language, having forgotten his own. A mad dictator erects a wall around his island nation, effectively walling in the population. The dead come back to life and take up their old lives, much to everyone else's irritation. A group of Jews pay to have a faithful reenactment of a concentration camp. A misshapen skull is the basis of a cult in Florida and the Bahamas. These are some of the peculiar...

When Cubans left their island and emigrated to the United States, they found themselves spread out all over the U.S. This mosaic portrays some of the cultural and political adjustments and misunderstandings of those immigtrants who found themselves in the state of Kansas, in an environment and a culture that was as different as night and day.

One fine day, as Bruno Lambertazzi is going about his business, he receives the news that he is . . . dead. Well, as if that was not enough, everyone else agrees with the news. A bizarre stage play by a Cuban-American playwright.

This collection of stories are written from the perspective of the Cuban-American diaspora from the children's point of view. The themes range from the universal (interpersonal relationships, understanding and adjustment to a different culture, generational conflict) to the unique (children face to face with totalitarianism).

A young girl goes into a deserted alcove in a library and finds a magical book that sends her to relive the stories found in other books. In doing so, she meets up with tigers, Napoleon, Martians, Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote and a host of other creatures, including . . . Count Dracula.

In this collection of short stories with widely ranging plots, we have a mail order bride, a terrorist, a psychotic dictator, a girl who inherits a fortune and others.

This bilingual edition of three satirical plays will have the reader either laughing his head off or asking for the author's head, depending on your point of view. The Peasant relates an encounter between a farmer and a group of self-styled revolutionaries. The Citizenship Oral Exam taken by two women applying for citizenship results in maddening frustration for the man administering the test. Infidel is a surrealistic comedy about a Caribbean dictator who is dead but who refuses to let himself be buried. Infidel was produced at the Orlando International Fringes Festival in 2007. In Spanish...

The 58 stories in this collection range over a wide variety of subject matter: hurricanes, criminals, sinkholes, scuba diving, jazz clubs, sex, surfing, nude beaches, Sea World, Disney World, racism, Cuban-Americans, the terminally ill, drug addiction, conservation. And, although the stories are centered around Orlando, many of the stories also take place throughout Florida: in Miami, Tampa, Cape Canaveral, Ft. Myers and the Florida Keys ("Where the weird turn pro"). Some of the stories would be considered to be too bizarre---except they were based on true incidents.