TAROT: Rodrigo Garcia Olza

by D.G. Farnsworth

Part fairy tale, part horror story about characters who convince themselves they are alright. But at times the truth arrives and they can't get it off them -- and there is no answer, only a question. Tarot cards are not really meant to tell your fortune or future: the tarot aids in coming in contact with one's Higher Self because the most powerful information sources come from within. Sometimes the best way to move forward is to go backward because the path to a bright future requires a shadowy regression. Protagonist Rodrigo García Olza returns to the racetrack to train horses. Rodrigo is a vampire especially attracted to what he cannot define, who let go of a life planned for the life he shares in San Francisco with photographer/filmmaker Liam Mannering. Liam's film contemplates the many forms of erotic desire and shifting genders that both Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" and mythology's "Ganymede" release through various disguises of erotic attachment -- encouraging gender disruptions through less permitted forms of desire. And the necromancer, capable of every wickedness, brings back spirits of the dead to fight for him. Undead Spanish poet/playwright Federico Garcia Lorca searches for a way to be human, again.

198 pages, Paperback

Published October 3, 2017

About the author

Novelist: 20 books -- including 18 books RODRIGO GARCÍA OLZA NOVEL SERIES
Freelance journalist/writer/researcher. Past front-stretch/back-stretch camera-man for live horse-racing production at the Red Mile--Lexington's standardbred track simulcast to racetracks nationwide. Grew up working around Keeneland Racetrack's barns hot walking exercised thoroughbreds. TV producer (and Captioned News Coordinator) at Kentucky Educational Television for seven years. Thirteen years of college: B.A. in Journalism (photography/film) from the University of Kentucky (enrolled Post Bac/two graduate programs: 30 graduate hours - including Art Education); Masters of Management from the University of Phoenix; enrolled in Master of Arts in Teaching/Teacher Certification program at University of the Cumberlands (33 graduate hours). In the late-1990's tutored dozens of athletes (a half-dozen sports) at the University of Kentucky Athletics Association--including seven members of two NCAA basketball championship teams. TribeHollywood member. Photographer/videographer/editor. Classically trained pianist. Music is at the heart of the soul.