Short Story: Cuca's Carrousel Ride & ESL Class for Immigrants?

Ernesto and Miriam get married at the Court House by Judge Whitterhausen who asks if Miriam is sure she wants to marry a “Black Man.” Cuca explains that, “He’s just un legal Pilipino muy moreno!” Then, the wedding party goes to Santa Monica Pier to ride the carrousel. Cuca enjoys her Angel’s Flight rides to a part-time job too, at the Grand Central Market while she ditches her “ESL Class for Immigrants” at Downtown Los Angeles’ Berendo Junior High School.

Short Story about undocumented immigrants. Suitable for Hispanic/Latino/Chicano & Multicultural Oral Communication Presentations. 28 pages.

This collection of 17 interrelated short stories was first published by the author,

Norma Landa Flores under the title, “From Jalisco to Boyle Heights: Plays for Reader’s Theatre, Stage or TV, A Collection of 17 Plays for Oral Performance.”

Copyright © PAu-128-796 by the Register of Copyrights, USA on July 9, 2007

These cuentos, stories about thinking in two cultures, speaking in two languages and adapting to everyday bicultural communication interactions with grace, compassion and humor, came from my family, friends and neighbor’s memories and conversations. Cherish them. They are part of our multicultural community’s herencia, inheritance.