The Witches of El Paso

The Witches of El Paso

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Exeunt.

The Scottish Play (I.i.11)

By 1993, and through 2016, at least, I was in El Paso as often as a half-dozen times in a year. Shows, gigs, clients, friends, and cohorts, plus? I have many stories. At some point, it involved Las Cruces, NM, as well. Same geographical location but very different places.

My connection with the occult goes back further, but certainly runs concurrent with that El Paso mystique. Made the title of the book, The Witches of El Paso, that much more alluring.

The Witches of El Paso

In-laws and outlaws.

“You know how things are in El Paso. Everyone is connected somehow.” Page 73.

It’s true. In-laws and outlaws. There’s still a kind of magic in it. Too tired to be a federal judge. Echos and iterations. Lawyers and the medical school.

Ancient history.

Cross-generational boundaries, playing fast and loose with myth and local culture?

Part of the way through the book, into its meat and bones, so to write? I wondered what the connection is between the land and Magical Realism, so prevalent in the cultures.

The Witches of El Paso

El Paso in passing?

1. Freeway Image
2. El Paso Memories
3. Hello El Paso
4. El Paso cops and robbers
5. ASARCO
6. Rosa’s Cantina
7. The Gourds 1.1.2001

• The Gourds