How to Date a Flying Mexican

How to Date a Flying Mexican is a collection of stories derived from Chicano and Mexican culture but ranging through fascinating literary worlds of magical realism, fairy tales, fables, and dystopian futures. The characters confrontboth directly and obliquelyquestions of morality, justice, and self-determination.The collection is made up of Daniel A. Olivas's favorite previously published stories, along with two new storiesone dystopian and the other mythicalthat challenge the Trump administration's anti-immigration rhetoric and policies. Readers will encounter a world filled with both the magical and the quotidian: a man with twelve fingers who finds himself on a mystical date with a woman, God who appears in the form of a scrawny chicken, a woman who bravely fights back against her abuser, and Aztec gods searching for relevance after the Spanish conquestjust to name a few of the unforgettable characters populating these pages....