/DP-M RETURNS

 We were preoccupied about him because he has the heart of an adventurer. We worried that he might have followed the lead of the great California short story writer Ambrose Bierce and disappeared into Mexico in search of the truth about the cartels. Bierce never survived the Mexican Revolution and we feared the same fate might befall out audacious amigo.


He possesses the same bravado as the Texas Rangers John Ford and we have no doubts that he would have ventured into Llano Estacado in search of kidnapped white women captured and brutally and repeatedly raped by Comanches in those days when West Texas was a no-man's land.

Nor would we be surprised if his ancestors hadn't ridden under U.S. Major Samuel Heintzelman in pursuit of revolutionary Juan Cortina along the Rio Grande in the early 1860s and chased the iconic military figure back into Mexico but with scores of his patriots lying dead along the sandy river beds in his wake.

And we don't know if there is any truth to this rumor, but Estanislao Contreras related to us that our longtime journalist ally's grandfather was a part of General John Pershing's punitive expedition in pursuit of Pancho Villa after the latter raided the United States.

But he's back. /DP-M, never one to reveal details about his personal life except in brief episodes of his fiction, has returned to his native McAllen to write. Just like a rapist rapes, a writer writes by fucking his own mind. There is a brutal but beautiful reality that must be stalked via the labyrinths of the brain and ravished when ambushed.

The news of his return has brought joy to the likes El Rrun Rrun's Juan Montoya, The Brownsville Voice's Bobby Wightman-Cervantes and The Brownsville Observer's Jim Barton. They know that they can't do their job if /DP-M doesn't do his.

And, of course, we are giddy that /DP-M will be gracing our pages once again. We relish publishing his stories and he savors featuring us in his stories. That's the trade-off when one team acquires a proven veteran in exchange for next year's first-round draft pick. Each author must possess certain elements in order to put his best product on the field.

For those who have forgotten, /DP-M is available at brownsvillerepublic.wordpress.com. The dog days may be upon on us, but a fresh gust of wind just swept across the valley from the gulf.

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