The Sixth String

Intro- “I must write this story, perhaps because there is something not in my bloodlines that compels me, perhaps because I think of things now that I haven’t thought about in years.

Perhaps because I simply like fashioning words on the page, watching the ink spill out as my hand races across the paper.

Perhaps because it makes me return to Jerez de la Frontera, where, as a youth, I learned the guitar and Spanish and learned both well, and where, as it turns out, I was the happiest. Until now.”