Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo Garcia Elizondo Groundswell Speaker 2024 TAD and Nirvana) and the

TAD and Nirvana) and the avid vinyl-collecting fans it rapidly amassed

attraction and repulsion

most of humankind has retreated from the old notion of war as a sport or pastime

in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles

ancient custom and impenetrable jargon

Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo Garcia Elizondo Groundswell Speaker 2024 TAD and Nirvana) and theA junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he cant stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. Theres no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesnt want him either.