Rudy Martinez

A Letter to My Father Sorry it’s been so long. I started a letter last week, but some shiny object distracted me. It was the Winter Olympics, the shiny object. My wife loves figure skating so we watched. It’s always amazing to see what they can do – men and women. The grace, the beauty, […]

I’m angry. I know that isn’t surprising considering the state of the U.S. these days, but I need to get it off my chest all the same. We have a racist Administration running what, in my opinion, amounts to a state sponsored domestic terrorist organization in ICE. They’ve killed scores of people already, locked up […]

A twenty-year-old barbarian warlord stands at the gates of Paris. His name is Clovis. He’s just defeated the last Roman holdout in Gaul. And he’s about to change everything. This is the story of how Paris became a capital for the first time. How a pagan warrior king met an elderly saint named Geneviève who […]

I have been writing these letters to you in my head almost from the moment you died. There is no real theme, or end-goal with them; they are just my way of saying the things I would say were you still here. You are the best friend I have ever had so, of course I […]