You may have noticed some changes at johannauribes.com. We are in the process of completely revamping everything here. This site now features the landscape paintings of Johanna uribes and Alan Arellano. Although our art styles…
First, they say it’s simply a miracle!2 California condor chicks have been found alive in the path of Dolan Fire Excerpt from an article by Cassandra GaribaySeptember 03, 2020 Two missing California condor chicks were…
As many of you know, California has been on fire for the past few weeks. I live in John Steinbeck country – Salinas, and the smoke has only just started to recede. The fires near…
They met on first night. Well no, it wasn’t really the first night, it was actually the first Friday in October. She remembered because her new town did things on the first Friday of every…
Chapter 4 / Released Sarah, a kind, soft spoken, friendly woman with curly red hair walks through the door and they hand her my meds. “Unfortunately, the tumor was malignant. We got good margins, but…
The sun wakes me early and I know I need to be on the move to avoid capture. What I don’t know is there are white trucks that drive around looking for runaways like me,…
This takes place like clockwork, every six months. Each time, a few months later, I give birth to another dead, frail or deformed baby that will not thrive or is destroyed by a gun blast…
One afternoon, after I had given up all hope of ever leaving this truck alive, the man pulls into a bumpy driveway. I look out at a rundown house in a neighborhood of shabby, neglected…
We are to be loaded onto the truck in our cages – stacked 3 or 4 high – the next morning in preparation for the 3-hour drive to the auction. I hope I will be…
This is an excerpt from my new short story, The Story of Bess. It’s about my sweet dog, who left me on December 13, 2017. I still miss her terribly. A great dog, who I…
