Book 1: Revelation at Tikal — Ch 21: Magician at the Border
The road south of San Miguel ends at a wall of sandbags, a platoon of soldiers, and the regime's informers — las orejas, the ears. Two men lie wired at the shoulder. A third is staked to a fence post ...
29 Juli 19min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 20: Old Memories, New Directions
Cutty Braughn wakes in Chichicastenango, in the church outbuilding where his sister Floey painted her Popol Vuh murals, and finds her last message waiting on a fogged mirror, written in soap: a riddle...
22 Juli 25min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 19: Chichi, Two Days Late
Cutty and Paula roll into Chichicastenango with the last of the daylight — road-drunk, relieved, and almost hopeful. The town sits at altitude, half-wired and still half-dark from the '76 quake, its v...
15 Juli 16min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 18: The Road to Chichicastango
The safe route to Chichicastenango meant the long loop through Guatemala City. Cutty doesn't have time for safe. His sister Floey was last seen weeks ago, painting the monastery walls of Santo Tomás, ...
8 Juli 16min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 17: Hot Bearings and Messages
In Chapter 17 of Revelation at Tikal, Cutty finally receives the replacement bearing that can get his motorcycle back on the road. The part arrives by cargo plane at the Tikal airstrip, carried in by ...
1 Juli 14min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 16: Chasing the Afterimage
In Chapter 16 of Revelation at Tikal, Cutty realizes he has not been following Floey so much as the afterimage she leaves behind: rumors, sightings, symbols, and the lives she has disturbed along the ...
24 Juni 20min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 15: Eagles, Tourists, and Other Predators
Cutty is waiting on the airstrip at Tikal, running every wrong version of this reunion in his head, when Paula steps off the bus from Palenque and straight back into his life. This chapter follows the...
17 Juni 16min
Book 1: Revelation at Tikal – Ch 14: Poodles, Pages, and a Lost Boy in Tikal: episode 2
Cutty's day at the Tikal airstrip starts with flirtation and boredom and turns, very quickly, into an animal rescue and a reckoning. While Colleen heads back toward the Jaguar Inn, a charter plane vom...
10 Juni 19min
