Short Story: Lucky Los Angeles WPA & Artist's Visas Connections!

Episode Fourteen: Lucky Los Angeles WPA & Artist’s Visas Connections!

Without birth certificates or visas Cuca and her friends work as Hollywood extras in Echo Park. Dora’s Minerva connections help Miriam rent her Figueroa Street apartment to a very famous Mexican muralist and his notorious wife. Dora’s Public Relations boss secures an “Artist’s Visa” for the Mexican couple and insists that Dora have a WPA contract signing party at Miriam’s apartment on Cinco de Mayo.

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.

Table of Contents:

Cuca’s Conundrums Episode Fourteen: Lucky Los Angeles

WPA & Artist’s Visas Connections!

Product Description ...................................................... Page 1

Cuca, Hollywood’s Echo Park Extra, 1933 ....Page 2

Cuca, La Coquette? ....Page 4

Public Relations Connections .... Page 5

Treasure Hunting Guests .... Page 10

Dora’s Guests of Honor Arrive ..... Page 15

Cucaracha and Card Games .... Page 22

Epilogue: Beating El Diablo ....Page 28

Peroration: Family Stories are our Multicultural Community’s Inheritance ... Page 30