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Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 23, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 1

Winter. 1995. Solitude and quiet. The mouth of a backcountry quartz monzonite and sand canyon in Joshua…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 25, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 2

You were standing beside me, or maybe slightly behind me, to my right. Roger, (standing over an old, non-moving bike), and Jeannine were in front of us, and in front of them was mighty Hooker Oak — later struck by lightning and killed. Jeannine suddenly twirled in a rare…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 27, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 5

2x37796 was the working title of my novel. It was also the license plate number of the getaway car in…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 28, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 8

External, non-chemical elements capable of altering mood and behavior come from multiple primary sources and utilize multiple delivery systems, meaning: no one had to tell Michele I wasn’t right for her. She’d known it in her bones all along. Words had merely activated that…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 28, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 6

The course I created began at Belle, in Joshua Tree National Monument, where I’d set up camp. Half…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 26, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 4

7AM. Roger walks down the driveway carrying a briefcase, wearing a dark blue T-shirt with an orange star inside a orange circle, a brown herring bone sport coat, khaki cargo pants, hiking boots — typical Silicon Valley hardware designer attire — then he spots me leaning on…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 28, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 7

The manuscript falls from her left hand on to the table by the computer. “Just take it into third person narrative.”
Me: (Disbelieving, then absorbing the suggestion) You’re serious.
Michele: Yeah. It’ll give you a whole new perspective. Promise. It’ll also throw way more…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 25, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 3

Doing the landscape design work for Roger and Jeannine’s Victorian was not easy. It was on a steep hill so the plan was to terrace it in four sections using old stone to hold back the ascending sections. The overall concept was lush English countryside and the focal point…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 28, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 6.5

There was another person standing near me when I took that photo of Hooker Oak. And if things were…

Robert Rico in The Trickster Diaries

Feb 28, 2019

The Trickster Diaries/Chapter 9

I’m the kind of guy who would live after stepping out in front of a bus traveling at 80 mph, or after…

March 2019

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The Trickster Diaries

Robert Rico has soared and staggered through myriad identities. He is a self-immolating searcher, the consummate bohemian. THE TRICKSTER DIARIES chronicles these experiences over a period of roughly 20 years.

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