Hub 132 by Various

Author:Various
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Publisher: Right Hand Publishing

As soon it disappeared on the horizon, Calypso dusted off and climbed back up the hill to his table. The young woman emerged from the kitchen with two cold beers and placed them on their table. Her hands shook and Calypso reached out to steady her. She smiled and said: “They have never come so close before; those bastards and their machines.”

Calypso rubbed his face with his right hand before taking a swig of the cold beer. It crossed his mind that the reaper was a warning from the Anglos, a warning to him and his brother. The woman stood with one hand on her hip near Calypso, gazing off toward the north, and Calypso sensed she was afraid and sought solace from his uniform or from him.

“So you don’t see them flying in this area?” asked the colonel in an attempt to engage her in conversation and assure her.

“Never,” she said. “This was like a threat.”

Calypso nodded in understanding. He felt the threat and associated it with the man van Kahnweiler. Cantu pulled out his chair, grabbed his beer, and quickly swallowed half of its contents before asking:

“So Colonel, what do you think?”

Calypso sipped his beer to buy a few seconds, while he gathered his thoughts. “I think the Anglos are warning me to cooperate.” He scratched his chin and asked the young woman: “Señorita, what if the Pope moved the Vatican City to La Ciudad; what would you think?”

The woman, surprised, turned toward him, and asked: “The Pope here in Mexico?” Her eyes sparkled and she continued: “I would say God has blessed us finally for our fidelity.” She crossed herself and asked:

“Is this so, Señor?”

He waved his hand vaguely and answered: “It is a possibility.”

“Could we have another cerveza?” asked Cantu, handing his empty bottle to the young woman, who smiled and returned to the kitchen.

“Why are they coming, Osvaldo? They have everything in the north? I don’t understand.”

Cantu pulled on his ear and brushed away a fly. “It is the shark theory.”

Calypso leaned forward and smiled. “You surprise me Osvaldo. I think you have hit upon something important. Capitalism must continue to move and expand. Failure to move produces a crisis; we have millions of potential consumers and a market on their border. They shut their doors on us twenty years ago but failed to see the dynamic effect our people had upon their economy. Now they want us back but not there on the other side of the wall; they want us here. They want to absorb us.”

“So how will you advise your brother?”

He placed his hand flat on the wooden table, as if in surrender.

“What do you say to a shark?” he asked as the woman placed another cold beer before him and an old blind man in the blue shadows of the arbor began to strum his guitar and sing a song about a cowboy who loses his love and his horse to a beautiful Luna bruja with pellucid blue eyes.

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